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Felted!
June 11, 2005
In the end it went 16 minutes, then 10, then 10 again, then 10 again, then 9, and then it was done. I think. there could have been one more or one less 10. Anyhoo - here we go. I didn't have anything the right size to dry it on so stuffed it with clothes and plastic bags, hopefully there won't be any lumps in the finished product.
Of course, this is just the beginning! Post drying I will start to think about lining and embroidering this beauty, although it's not on my immediate to do list so could be weeks or months away. Or not, who knows!
I had put these four images in a table, and for some reason it was messing with the sidebar menu. How frustrating. I've looked over the html and it's fine, so what is it? I guess I just have to move them one after an other even if it means making the page lots of scrolls down. Sigh!
Anyhoo, back to the bag, just cos I haven't said there's nothing wrong with it yet doesn't mean there isn't. It wasn't quite the dimensions I was expecting, even though I had adjusted based on past experience, it still shrunk lengthwise more, and widthwise less, than I'd expected.. Although, I think in this instance, these proportions will be better actually so not too bothered.
There is still some stitch definition visible but I didn't want it going any smaller. I guess I could hand agitate it a bit, but I think it'll be ok. The handles are a bit small, but giving I was totally winging it, it's ok. Plus, though my maths for it was fine, when I actually went to bind off and do the handles and space everything out, it came out not quite right - so given all that, the finished result is pretty pleasing at this stage.
Posted by lee_taylor at June 11, 2005 02:00 PM