It felt so wrong…
Felting is an inexact science at the best of times. Add to that the fact that I cannot really crochet (I have tried to teach myself a few times, but I always forget how to do it as soon as I put the crochet hook down) and what emerged from my washing machine today was a little green mangled lump of inevitability.
Science crochet finally solves the age old question - 'what would a gecko look like if you dropped a house on top of it from a great height?'
Made from Rowan Pure Wool DK, it resembles a comedy lump of slime. I’m not even sure you can make out quite what it was supposed to be. I’ve pinned it out to block as I think it has a certain charm to it anyway, and I don’t have the heart to throw it away. What did surprise me is how much lighter the felted item looks from the original yarn:
But how can you be my daddy?
As I have used this same ball of yarn for a few different projects now I have seen that it does lose quite a lot of colour in a cold wash even, but I wasn’t expecting the colour change to be quite so drastic. I am not sure if this change in colour is due to the washing process or if the fluffiness of the now fulled/felted fibres alters the appearance of the yarn and the way it behaves in the light, but I haven’t noticed this drastic colour change in any other yarn I have so far used in my stumbling journeys through the alchemical processes of felting.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to find a use for my new lumpy creation, but I’ll have a think about how it might be put to use. If anyone has any suggestions, please list them in the comments and I’ll see if I can act on them!
It looks like a leaf to me. It would make a nice embellishment on a clutch or maybe a felted hat.
I have been quietly plotting (and feel free to point and laugh) of knitting a teapot cosy shaped like a pumpkin out of some orange wool I bought on a whim. I wonder if you could use these as leaf decorations for the top of a knitted pumpkin.
For illustrative purposes a fine pumpkin tea cosy can be enjoyed here:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/KnittyKnurse/broken-rib-tea-cosy
Me, point and laugh? Not at all, I think it is a WONDERFUL project idea! I think some medium sized knit leaves, secured so they did not fall in front of the spout if it was the kind of tea cosy you do not have to remove to pour, and some of those twisty cord tendrils would look fantastic!