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Right I could just be thick ... but I know I am not so just put it down to age ... I found a pattern to crochet a bowl for felting ... never felted anything . Read this link and that link I understand the agitating and even the blocking ... but all the blocking says lie flat between towels or some such ... question is ... ??? bowl shape???.... do I put wet felted piece on a bowl to shape it and leave till dry ... It sounds a really daft question ... but I know some here will have a laugh at me than tell me ...
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Perfect thankyou .... I thought in my tiny brain thats how it would work but couldn't find anything to say so. So I was doubting natural logic ... thanks for the link.
Are you going to felt it by hand? I always want to try felting but the instructions I see tend to be for American washing machines which seem to be different to ours (you can keep stopping them and fishing your thing out to see if it's done yet) - and I worry that doing it by hand would take ages, but perhaps it won't and I am just being a wimp! Let us know how it goes!
Right followed the instructions posted by crowsashes .. in a bowl by hand method .. took longer than artical said but it was rather peacefull agitatating and looking out of the kitchen window ... and I got it to felt ... Yay but I really dont think its going to be any other shape than flat ...
actually just had an idea ... I got another bowl like the one I am using will put thay over the first one and put an old fashioned flat Iron on it as a weight ...
also found this link with a stove top way of felting .. ot rather fulling... if nothing else I learnt a new word ...
usually find me wandering around with the damp felted bowl in my hand looking for just the right sized object to block it on. usually a glass or a jar
this is my latest one, which i blocked on a large coffee jar!
Red
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red wrote:usually find me wandering around with the damp felted bowl in my hand looking for just the right sized object to block it on. usually a glass or a jar
this is my latest one, which i blocked on a large coffee jar!
That is so beautiful.... I am so green ... and green doesn't suit me...
oh that looks like fun - going to have to try that! is there no end to the adventures in wool i suspect how long it takes to felt varies depending ont he wool you have - merino has to be the best for felting.. but I'm against the stuff...
you can get the carded wool fibres from ebay in tons of bright colours, or you could just dye your own like im planning on doing
I know where you can buy carded wool in bright colours!
Red
I like like minded people... a bit like minded anyway.. well people with bits of their minds that are like the bits of my mind that I like...
oh that looks like fun - going to have to try that! is there no end to the adventures in wool i suspect how long it takes to felt varies depending ont he wool you have - merino has to be the best for felting.. but I'm against the stuff...
you can get the carded wool fibres from ebay in tons of bright colours, or you could just dye your own like im planning on doing
I know where you can buy carded wool in bright colours!
I found a pattern to crochet a bowl for felting ... never felted anything . Read this link and that link I understand the agitating and even the blocking ... but all the blocking says lie flat between towels or some such ... question is ... ??? bowl shape???.... do I put wet felted piece on a bowl to shape it and leave till dry ... 
It sounds a really daft question ... but I know some here will have a laugh at me than tell me ... 
