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everyone at the java station either has already made or is making a felted hand bag.* i'm known to succumb to peer pressure so i, too, am making one.
while everyone else did it the right way using worsted weight yarn and making swatches, i did neither. add to that, i have a front load washer that's designed, ironically enough, to be gentle on clothes.
here it is, barely felted after one wash:
 experimental felting
i used one ball of bulky lopi and size 13 needles, the largest circular i own. i suspect the knitted fabric was not loose enough for the wool to shrink or felt. before it got tossed in the wash, it measured 12"x18"x3". right now it measures 12"x14" lying flat, which is borderline too small to be a decent hand bag. on one hand i hope it will continue to felt into a better texture. on the other, i hope it won't shrink into to a beer cozy.
jg took this sad looking hand bag put it over his head. he positioned it so that one eye was peering out of the handle opening. he thinks it could double as a ski mask for bank robbing purposes. if it looks the same after another wash, i'm sending it with jg to bank of america!
*scroll down to the java station knit group pictures. you can see julie is making one. it's the huge blue pile on her lap.
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