Comments on: Oops, I Shrunk My Sweater

By: Russell Sanchirico

Russell Sanchirico — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:26:19 +0000

You made excellent points, great work!

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By: Charity

Charity — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:10:53 +0000

Thank you for clarifying that, Susan.

My sweater was not 100% wool, so it did not felt as tightly as 100% wool would have. As you pointed out, the non-wool fibers do not actually felt.

What I meant was that people can still do the project with a sweater that is not 100%. The results are not guaranteed, though.

I knew mine would felt since it already was most of the way there!

The wool and ribbon felted together sounds very cool!

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:54:50 +0000

Ooops – I should mention – that felting will only work with 100% wool – any non-wool fibers will not felt – but the non wool will be felted into the wool. Make sense?

It will affect the texture of the finished project differently. I’ve made felted dice bags with a strand of 100% wool and 100% nylon ribbon. The wool felts and the ribbon won’t – creates a neat look.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:49:37 +0000

It does have to be 100% wool – just that there are a lot of different types of wool out there – with different names!

Felting is a great. I love to knit and felt – you could crochet and felt as well. The unfelted object is usually really huge – and then you felt it down to size.

I like knitting and then felting slippers. (they are really a huge sock that I felt down to size(which you can also make from a felted sweater)