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| Cathryn |
FullingWhat will happen if I add a few rows of eyelash wool into the wool that I know felts fulls well? I know you are all going to say try it and see  but this knitting business is still quite slow for me (despite many years of doing it tck) If I knit those rows on slightly smaller needles will it just get felted into the rest of the wool? I wonder if eyelash will stay eyelash looking. Has anyone tried it? As it's all black I can probably risk it.
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| mochyn |
If I were you I'd try a small square to see what happens. Measure before and after fulling, and remember how many stitches/what size needles you used! You could post before and afters here too... | ||
| Cathryn |
I'm being intensely mean - so although I fulled a small test square I forgot to add the eyelash wool to it It's only now - completed bottom and going up the sides (it's a bag, well theoretically) that I suddenly thought of it. I think that if no-one comes along who has actually done it - I will do just two or three rows as the other wool is "hairy" and will probably mesh it all in (sorry full it all in). All this new jargon.
Should have said - because I am using up odds and ends of black wool accumulatetd by me and Mum over the years. Cannot find a single garment that I have knitted with balck wool - a mystery. |
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| mochyn |
Are you coming over some time to do some beading? | ||
| Cathryn |
Funny - I mentioned this to my daughter this very weekend - she is also keen as she was very taken with your hair slide. We really want to. Now when Can it scaled down for a nine year old do you think? She is quite dextrous - I had to unpick two rows of her knitting last night - due to her watching that programme about Africa instead of concentrating - but she is usually not bad.
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| Cathryn |
Have you got snow there yet? Could see it over the mountains North of here. | ||
| hedgewitch |
What's eyelash wool? 
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| mochyn |
Once we get into Feb. you can come any time! My son and his fiancee are hopefully coming next Monday, so any time after that is good, except for Fridays (baking day). Don't see a problem for Ruby if she's handy!
No snow yet: beautifully sunny although cold. |
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| Cathryn |
Mmmm Friday it is then  
Eyelash wool - the stuff that those scarves were all made out of last year - sort of feathery and no I didn't knit a black eyelash wool scarf - maybe it was with others from a charity shop haul! |
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| toggle |
a strand of thrad, with lots of little threads off it, sorts like these and to answer the op's question, adding a strand of eyelash to a fulled item is pretty common. It will work. |
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| hedgewitch |
Thanks  I saw it mentioned somewhere else yesterday and thought I needed to know
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| Cathryn |
Toggle you're a wonder. Many thanks
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| toggle |
you will also see it refered to as fun fur.
i have no idea why people keep recommending it for beginnrs, because if i had started knitting using that stuff, I'd never have knit a second item. ever. |
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| Cathryn |
The only benefit I can see is that it hides many a dropped stitch but inversely you can't see what you are knitting at all. | ||
| Stacey |
True, but it won't hurt to remember that she's not the messiah, she's just a very naughty girl
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| toggle |
Don't you know it.
I just bought a whole load more yarn this morning. |
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| Cathryn |
I was tempted just to start this thread with "Coooe Stacey Sally Toggle?"
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| Stacey |
Blimey, now there's an unholy trinity if ever I saw one
BTW re the eyelash yarn - I was tempted to add it to the top of some bags before fulling. I think it'll work fine. |
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| toggle |
I've got some silver stuff, looks like tinsel that I got off Eme that will eventually go onto a bag for my lass. | ||
| sally_in_wales |
What I often do if I want to see if something will felt, is cut a measured length off, dunk it in hot soapy water and rub it very hard and fast in my hands for a minute or two then rinse it, see how it looks, whether it has shrunk at all or just gone bedraggled looking. gives you a very quick idea of whether it will do what you want or not, and the bonus is you can often fdo this at shows if someone has a batch of wool you fancy, just beg a few inches and try it out before buying
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| toggle |
I've got a bit of plastic canvas, you know the stuff you use to start teaching small kids how to sew.
Tie the yarn onto a strip of that, chick it in the machine next time I do a hot wash and see what happens. I find this usefull when I have picked up a dozen unlabelled balls of yarn in charity shops and want to know what to chuck int the feltable box and what goes into the gift knitting box |
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| Cathryn |
Great frugal tips - I like them
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