This month’s meeting was in two distinct parts:
- the Chairman’s Challenge
- Discovering which yarns would felt – a hands-on experiment with different yarns.
Challenge
The Chairman’s Challenge was a competition to create a bag. Using a piece of knitting approximately A4 size to create a mixed-media clutch bag using as many different elements as possible.
The results were absolutely amazing – everyone who entered created a lovely bag. Chairman April’s difficult job was to judge the results and award the £25 prize to the one she felt had best fulfilled the brief.
The winner was France whose bag contained many lovely features.
Felting
The experimental part of the evening as demonstrated by Margaret – she took a metre long (approximately) piece of yarn, added a tiny amount of washing up liquid and a small amount of water and the scrunching up the yarn rubbed it around to form a ball. By constant friction, using the hands to rub it in a circular motion, it would form a small felted ball if the yarn did indeed felt.
making felt balls by rubbing yarn around in the hands.
Resulting felted ball
Samples of felting
Homework
For the November meeting when we will attempt to make some baby booties, Margaret asked everyone to try and bring a piece of felt they had made, big enough to make these booties. The pattern instructions are given here: nov-2016-feltbabybootee link to the template so that people can try them at home – we will donate them to a charity for Christmas.
A link to the template so that people can try them at home – we will donate them to a charity for Christmas unless you wish to keep yours for a small person!
Download the template here and make your own template on some thick paper or card. Bring thread and a suitable needle.
pdf of felt baby shoe template to print
Show and Tell
