Well sort of... I was on call last night and Melissa came over with carry out Chinese food and we worked on felted soap. We started out with some smelly oval Dove soaps which we later learned should have been square or rectangular shaped bars for greater felting ease. We also started out using merino top for the fiber but it was too slippery and smooth and we wound up with floppy hair balls on a bar of soap. We gave up twice and then tried once more with a mohair/wool batt I'd gotten years ago at Austin's Mohair and Gifts and it finally worked! Melissa has an aversion to cotton balls and anything fuzzy/fibery but she was a real sport. We felted 8 bars and our hands were pruny and then we quit. We'll sell these at her fundraising event next week. These were fun...once they finally worked!
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Fun!!!!
Well sort of... I was on call last night and Melissa came over with carry out Chinese food and we worked on felted soap. We started out with some smelly oval Dove soaps which we later learned should have been square or rectangular shaped bars for greater felting ease. We also started out using merino top for the fiber but it was too slippery and smooth and we wound up with floppy hair balls on a bar of soap. We gave up twice and then tried once more with a mohair/wool batt I'd gotten years ago at Austin's Mohair and Gifts and it finally worked! Melissa has an aversion to cotton balls and anything fuzzy/fibery but she was a real sport. We felted 8 bars and our hands were pruny and then we quit. We'll sell these at her fundraising event next week. These were fun...once they finally worked!
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