Wool+Hot Water=
FELT!
Remember this bag I started on?
Well it only took me a few days of knitting it during snatches of free time. I embroidered a trailing vine and some berries so then it looked like this:
Just a bag, really. But then my friend Sheril, who had been crocheting a wool bag of her own, came over and we felted! Stuck the bags in pillow cases, put them in the washing machine with HOT water and an extra long cycle, then sat back an knit other projects. Every 10 minutes or so we checked on them until the bags had felted.
Behold
How cute is that?
I love how the embroidery gets totally incorporated into the bag.
The pattern can only be found in the Fall issue of Interweave Knits magazine. Or you can buy a kit from the designer on Etsy: SheKnits for Knitters.
She sells complete kits to make the original Dumpling Bag and the Double Dumpling bag, which is what I made. I’m all about letting other people do the shopping and letting all the supplies I need arrive at my front door.
Wow, that is too adorable!
Wow…too cool! Is that your mother’s Christmas present? 🙂