Stress gives my knitting consistent tension

[kaitou]

I've been working my way though my beginning knitting book, dutifully trying each project that teaches me a new technique, whether I WANTED a shawl or not. So the latest thing was to learn how to decrease by making a felted purse. For the most part it went off without a hitch. Decreasing was really easy to learn, and the halves of the purse came off without a hitch. Then, since the example purse was supposed to have flowers (example purse was green with pink flowers) I decided to make leaves instead. The leaves came out really well even though I did them without any sort of pattern at all.





And then I tried to felt it.
>.<
It didn't go so well...



Anyone know a fashion forward 3 year old? I let it felt in the hot water too long. Which really, I'm not too surprised. Since this is my first time, I didn't really have a baseline as to 'when are the stitches felted' and probably let it go 5-7 minutes longer than necessary. I did my best to stretch it back out, but this was the best I could do. It's a shame really, besides the size it came out really well. You can't even see the seam where I sewed the two halves together.

Oh well. *sigh* Better luck next time.

Comments

[soranokumo.livejournal.com]

Eep! I'm sorry it shrank so much. As you say, though, it's not the end of the world, and the next time your project calls for felting you're now much more closer to getting the timing down right. So no worries! And, you can always find another little use for it, I'm sure. (Maybe a cute bento bag?)

[kaitou1412.livejournal.com]

Oh it's far too small for that. It's maybe big enough for 2 apples. (Hey, it's Hello Kitty sized!) I don't think I'll actually bother assembling the strap and all. I think I'll just start on the next project. (Once I get more yarn)