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Fun with felting

This is what my bunny slippers looked like seamed but not felted:

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Things I did to my knitted bunny slippers to make them fuzzy and cute and foot-sized:

– Soaked in painfully hot water and dish soap

-Swirled around in painfully hot water

-Rubbed vigorously in painfully hot water for an hour until hands were chafing

-Stirred around in sink filled with painfully hot water with a spoon

– Dumped in pot of boiling water for fifteen minutes and stirred with fork

This is what my bunny slippers looked like after the aforementioned events:

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For future reference, Lanaloft in Cottage White does not felt.

Lion Brand Fishermen’s Wool in Natural, however, does.

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(I totally can’t wait for it to dry so I can sew on the ears and face!)

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Hippity.

Hopsalot pieces

I can’t remember what was going through my head when I decided to search bunny slippers on Ravelry, but I came across the most adorable pattern and they’ve just been sitting in my queue for ages, bleating at me to knit them. Because bunnies bleat. Yees.

Anyway, yesterday I somehow ended up at the yarn store again (no idea how that happened) looking for some yarn for a Summer Flies shawl and ended up walking out with two skeins of white wool and size 11 circulars. Again, no idea how that happened, although I suspect it had something to do with an inability to decide what color I wanted to do that shawl in.

Hopsalot ears

I worked on them for about an hour before class and about an hour after, and they’re all knitted up! Seaming was really quick as well.

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I’m somewhat hoping my feet might suddenly grow an extra two inches longer and wider so these will fit because I haven’t yet grown the balls to go for my first attempt at felting anything ever.

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