Knitting and Felting
Felting is a lot of fun and allows you to make homemade items that look really professional because you can't see the individual stitches. Learn the basics of felting and the supplies you will need, as well as some projects to get you started
If you have a front-loading washing machine, you might have been told or somehow convinced yourself that it isn't possible to felt knitting with your machine. It certainly is possible, but you might not get the exact same results as someone using a top-loading machine.
Needle felting is a fun and easy way to add texture and color to knit and felted fabric. It's not difficult to do, but a few needle felting tips will help you to be successful.
Felting a knit sweater might not be your idea of a good time just after you've knit it, but there are occasions when you might want to felt a sweater (homemade or purchased) or have an accidentally felted sweater on your hands and wonder what to do with it. Here are some tips for sweater felting and using the felted fabric.
If you're planning a felting project from scratch, you need to know how much your knitting is going to shrink in order to come out with a finished felted project you'll be happy with. Once again it all comes down to the swatch.
Felting with the use of a washing machine is the preferred method because it is quick and easy, but if you don't have access to a machine, you can felt by hand with these tips.
Felting is a lot of fun, but it can be a little intimidating. Here are some felting tips that will help you felt with ease.
Felting your knitting is a fun way to transform a project into something completely different. Here's a tutorial on how to felt a knitting project.
How do you know if a yarn is suitable for felting? You could just throw it into the washing machine and see what happens, but this great method is a little more sane.
This great little article talks about the history of felting and fulling, what the difference is and how and why you'd want to do either to a garment or fiber.
