Does anyone here felt?

[hivesofactivity]

I've been knitting for ages, but I'm a relatively new felter.  Also, my felting is the rather slapdash bung-it-in-the-washing-machine-a-few-times-when-I'm-doing-a-hot-wash variety, which to my utter shock is working out quite well.

At the moment, I am knitting and felting personalised pencil cases for kids at my kidlet's school.  It's a bit of a suprise: a tough little boy I didn't know  spotted me knitting in the playground, approached me and asked me to 'knit him something', I did him a pencil case with his name knitted into it, and word spread....  It's been a good way of using up old bits of stash, and they are so easy to do.  My only problem has been trying to work out if the unlabelled yarn in my stash is all wool or not, so that it will felt properly.

So - any other knitters who felt their finished projects?

Comments

[houseelf]

I've felted two projects - a bag, and some slippers. I think I'd do more felting if I weren't living in an apartment. My towels are a load of laundry unto themselves, and felting something without washing something with it gets expensive fast.

Pencil cases sound like a great way to use up odds and ends.

[hivesofactivity]

I admit I've always just bunged in my to-be-felted item in with a regular load of laundry - usually towels because I wash them on hot and everything else at cool. Because they've been quite small things I've felted - a little bag, and the pencil cases - it has been easy to slip them in without overloading the machine.

[iamshadow]

I love your icon. Is it free to take, with credit, or is it a personal one?

[houseelf]

Thanks :) Go for it.