1) My machine doesn't let me peek in at anything once it has started. For some reason I thought I had been able to in the past, but alas, I cannot. What does this mean? It felted a bit more than I wanted it to, and the opening is a bit narrower than I had hoped.
2) Crochet stitches shrink more in height than they do in width. This means that the proportions of the bag are a little off. I thought that I had read somewhere (must have been wrong) that the stitches felt more widthwise than lengthwise, so I made the bag with that in mind.
Here is the pre-felting photo.
Here is the post-felting shot.
2 comments:
I'm surprised at how your bag shrank. My crochet felting always shrinks more widthwise-- I ususally use Paton's classic merino. Yarns are different though. Best thing to do when felting with a new yarn is to make a small swatch and felt that to get the proportions down for your particular yarn. Really cute bag, though, in spite of how it felted.
Very Cute! I think it has already been claimed!
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