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Friday, 20 February 2009

Whew! This was a bigger project than I planned (spinning all those scraps together was time consuiming!), but I am happy with the results.
You can see my post just before this one for the work in progress to this point.
The finished purse is bigger than I intended (maybe 12 x 10"? I have to measure if I can find my measuring tape~ last seen playing snake), but the strap is long enough to go across the chest which works well with the width.
I was concerned about different fibers felting differently (how quickly, how much) and this did come into play, creating a bit of an issue with the width of one side of the purse vs. the other, which was resolved with enough coaxing and felting, but I would be more careful in a future project (things like swaledale and jacob likely shouldn't be included with the softer fibers). I was also wondering how the thick and thin would felt relative to one another and this was less of an issue, thankfully.




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7 comments:
Your talent and creativity never seizes to amaze me. Beautiful work, keep spinning.
Like I told you on Flickr you have inspired me. I will gather some fibers tonight and give it a try. I am not sure how much scrap I have and my knitting skill's are basic at best. I may need to crochet. :) But I would love to spin and knit, it would show off two of the skills that I have set goals for.
Go for it, this is straight old knitting :)
Have fun!
Oh,a nd thanks Marci, too sweet you are!
Fantastic Lori!
Very impressive! And it looks lovely!
wow, just now seeing this. how gorgeous!