Felted sweater creations (international)

When you do the felting, it is a good idea to put the sweater in a zipped pillow case. A lot of fiber can come out during felting and ruin you washer!

Yeay!! This is one of my favorite things to do!! Hooray for felted sweaters!

Searight, thanks for the tip.

This sounds fun! I've got just the thing to work with-a shrug I made with Noro that shrunk and started to felt. Now I will finish felting it and actually do something with it.

I hope using a shrug is OK. It's as big as a small sweater. If not, let me know and I can find a sweater.

Ooh, I just felted five sweaters from the Goodwill outlet store (clothes by the pound) and I'm ready to make them into stuff!

cerwinrhiannon, I'm not an authority or anything, but I would say being made out of lovely noro should make up for it being small in size! And there's plenty of little things you can make with felt, like little purses/wallets, notebook covers, or even felt flowers.

Sounds like fun. I have a stack of felted sweaters to work with.

Sharla, I was hoping that would be the case. Noro has such nice self-striping, and I have a pretty big piece of it to work with.

Aack! I found the most lovely 60s-era handknit sweater at the thrift shop this weekend -- just perfect, and already partially felted so I didn't feel too badly about making it unwearable. As I predicted, it fulled beautifully.

One problem: Apparently the thing was kept in mothballs forever. The smell was not even there when I bought it, but once I'd put it thru the wash, it became overpowering and has yet to dissipate.

Any ideas on what to do? I remember keeping stuff in mothballs a long time ago, but I don't ever remember anything smelling this strong. I've got it out in the sunshine at the moment, hoping the sun and air will evaporate the benzene or whatever it is...

Message me if you have tips. THX!

I'd like to make a messenger type purse, but as we know felt is kind of floppy in bigger pieces. Any ideas on how to give it some support?

Thanks-cr

cerwinrhiannon, I found a great post on reinforcing handbags on this blog:

http://u-handbag.typepad.com/

Scroll down towards the bottom; it's the post from 4/28. Hope this helps.

Mine is ready to go, just have to pack it up.

cr

My package won't be able to be mailed until Tuesday, May 22, as the post office will be closed due to the holiday weekend here in Canada.

I'm with jennyven....holidy weekend. Sorry, package will be mailed next day.

I got mine mailed out. I didn't have enough felt to make a handle. I thought about using a cord, etc., but nothing I thought of seemed right, so there is no handle. Jazmin (lovely name!) please feel free to add one, if you wish.

I was so anxious to get it mailed out, I forgot to take a picture. Damn! I hate it when I do that.

cr

smartcakes, your felted thingie is headed to the post office in a couple of hours. I really hope you like it. (Almost forgot to take pix...)

Heather, your package is on the way. Hope you enjoy!

jenn

Michelle, I love love love the handwarmers! Thank you so much. I haven't taken them off since they got here. And the birds are sweet. I'm going to upload a photo so everybody can see. THANKS!

Posted the pic on this swap gallery. Wish others would do the same... I'm interested to see what everybody made. So many possibilities!

Thanks for posting the pic. The handwarmers are ADORABLE.

Garden Heather, Your package arrived today. Thank you so much!!! Jenny

I just recently made some pocket books from old 3.00 wool sweaters from Goodwill. Beautiful pocketbooks! Can be done either before or after felting. Cut it up. Sew it up. Wash it up. That's it. Sorry I cannot enter this one. Just joined today.

Oh yes. Sample of my work is on Ebay now. Do a search for Needle Felted and it is the one that lists as Needle Felted OOAK Christmas Santa .