After two weeks, I’ve finally finished my latest knitting obsession.
The hardest part of making these felted bags was finding a top-loading washing machine to felt them in. Front-loading machines don’t agitate, which is a requirement for felting. As luck would have it, I have a front loader.
Plus there’s the issue of the smell. Wet wool stinks, people! (Think kimchee stink… .) So I didn’t want to ask one of my friends or family if I could stink up their laundry rooms.
Instead, I spent Saturday morning at the laundromat.
Having never lived without my own washer and dryer (I know, poor privileged me…), I haven’t spent much time in laundromats; and from what I could tell during my brief visit over the weekend, I haven’t missed much.
If I make anything else that requires felting, I think I’ll have to give in and ask someone if I can stink up their laundry room since the water at the laundromat didn’t get as hot as I needed it to. As a result of the less-than-boiling water, the bigger of the three bags didn’t shrink as much of it should have.
Ever observant, The Midge declared that I could use it to carry around Chica. Chica, on the other hand, growled something about me using it to carry around The Midge.
Play nice, girls…
8 Responses to “38/365 Bag Lady”
Those are beautiful! I loved the green when you posted it last week. It turned out SO CUTE!!!
Very creative. They are really cute. Yes, wet wool is not a good smell!
the bags are beautiful. and they sound like a lot of work, which makes it more rewarding when you’re finished with them.
They look lovely! White vinegar will cut down the stink of wet wool.
[Found that out when we had to wash our wool rugs. Vinegar also provides the right PH so the color pop. Cost me a fortune to learn those two little facts.] You are talented. Silvieon2
PS, Silvieon4 who loves to be carried around [cried when she outgrew her puppy carrier] has volunteered to habitate your bag.
Thank you, Silvie. Do I just toss a capful of vinegar in?
one cup per half a gallon of water is what we were told. we have two huge wool rugs and the white one would be garbage if not but for the vinegar. Without it it would turn yellowish any time it is washed and, yes, you are trading nasty wet wool smell for pickles anyone???
Thanks for letting me know, Silvie. I think I’d rather have the pickle smell over the nasty wet wool smell….:)