Does anyone here felt?

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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?

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[jennetj]

I just felted my first thing: a sleeve for my new netbook. All the patterns I found were for larger laptops, so I did a swatch and kind of "guestimated" on the size (wound up being 105 stitches and 46 rows with #10 needles to go around a 10" netbook. Plus flap). Two cycles in a hot wash got it to just about the right size, and then I blocked it using a hardcover book that was close to the right size. I'm very pleased with the way it turned out, especially as it was my first felting project.