Red and Black Felted Bag... or is it really a Rastafarian hat gone wrong!

Red and Black Felted Bag.

... and yes... it really does look like a massive Rastahat at this stage...

Anyway, the bag is off the needles and is ready to felt.

Youtube once again saved my bacon. This time I needed to learn how to do Kitchener Stitch in order to graft the handles together. It looked pretty tricky in my book, but was much easier to understand once I saw it being done... even if the tutorial was right handed! And so, instead of packing,  I'm off to the washing machine to initiate the felting sequence.

I just had a thought ... Chris has sent me some photos of where we are likely to be living in India. The complex is called Central Park ... HAHA!

http://www.centralpark.in/ 

http://www.centralpark.in/central-park1.asp

Hmmm... experience tells me this is a fairly (completely) 'optomistic' view of the whole place!

The 'laundry' is exactly the same as the set up we had in Semarang - namely a washing machine 'plumbed' in on the balcony ... won't that be fun during the monsoon. The machine was a front loader....ahhhhhh NOOOOOO! Apart from my aversion to front loaders, I am wondering how well a FL would work for felting ... could be a triffle hard to monitor the progress of the felting.

This is the sample I knitted/felted to check the wool would be suitable. I did a couple of others at the same time and discovered that superwash wool really is amazingly machine washable. No matter what I did to those samples they simply wouldn't felt or even shrink at ALL.