It's this close... While at Cape May I finished knitting and weaving in the ends of my French Market Bag thanks to Sandra and Lisa and their vast stores of extra Lamb's Pride. Here's a glimpse pre-felting. I'm worried that, once felted, the handles will be awfully small (although the striping at the bottom of the handles creates the illusion that they are shorter than they actually are), but I guess I can always carry the FMB by hand.
It might be a while before FMB actually gets felted, though. At the laundromats around here, you can't open the machines mid-wash so I'm concerned that the bag would be over-felted by the end of a whole cycle. Someday I'll meet someone around here who lives in a building with her own washing machine, and I plan to befriend that person.
I also got a little swatching done on the beach for Baby Ethan's cardigan:
living in NYC as well i know the felting dilemma - if you feel like a little exercise - you can do it at home with a bucket, a new plunger, a pair of dishwashing gloves and a lot of close to boiling hot water.
Put the bag in bucket with a pair of jeans shorts or some other item of clothing to help creat some friction(hot water and friction is the trick). pour in the hot water and start workin that plunger!! At first it seems like it's not working cause the water stretches the wool out - but keep working it.
I would take it out of the water once and a while just to rub the wool against itself. It also helps to take the bag out of the hot and shock it in a bucket of really cold water. You may have to keep changing the hot water - the hotter the water the better it seems to work. And LOTS of plunging - but it's a great upper arm workout.
Posted by: michellenyc at April 18, 2005 11:26 AMI LOVE the colors! Send it to me, I'll felt it for ya! Seriously,I do my friend Lisa' all the time...I'm a great felter! Have a good week.
Posted by: Lynne at April 18, 2005 12:24 PMWow! I'm famous and sorry I don't have a blog. Glad to help out
Posted by: Lisa at April 18, 2005 3:08 PMlove the stripey french market! that is going to be so great felted.
Posted by: amy at April 18, 2005 3:32 PMI adore the colours on the bag. They are truly seasonal and make me smile just looking at them. I'd offer to felt it for you too, but I destroy things in my front-loader. I know someone who lives in Park Slope: maybe you can borrow her machine! Good luck!
Posted by: julia fc at April 18, 2005 9:31 PMI love the colors on your french market bag. It's so cheerful and springy!
What yarn & colorway are you using on Ethan's cardi? I just adore that colorway! That cardi is going to be gorgeous!
Posted by: atouria at April 19, 2005 5:50 PMJess, that bag looks great! The colors are so pretty. Glad I could help!
:)
Posted by: Sandra at April 19, 2005 8:55 PMlove those colors! can't wait to see it felted!
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