The wife and I spent a long time trying to get a pair of slippers to felt. The slippers were knitted from the Shetland Mutt fleece and the yarn was hard spun worsted. Before it was washed, it felt like cable. The washing opened it up a bit and gave it a much nicer handle, but it was much more tightly spun than a commercial yarn.
The felting took a couple hours of rubbing the slippers in a bucket of soapy water and four hot washes in the front loader washing machine. I am thinking that this yarn needs to be prepared better before it is used in another felting project. I'm thinking of taking the current ball of yarn, turnning it back into a skein and washing it a couple more times. This would "fuzz" it up a bit more and make it easier to felt.
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Amazing how I am not generally inclined to immerse my hands in hot soapy water but give it the name felting and I will stay chained to the sink and draining board for hours on end till I am doubled over and start to look like an eighty-year old skivvy!
Ruth
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