After doing a couple of felting projects this year, I’m still not sure what I think about them. I like the idea that I can knit a project together very quickly (and sloppily) and then just by running it through the washer, have something totally new. But it just seems like a way to get out of working hard on something and having it look nice in the end because you actually did a good job on it.
Anyway, this is my second of these felted bags. I made another one this summer for a friend’s birthday, but for some reason I think hers turned out better. I think that after awhile, the whole process of making it started to annoy me. (I’m just a big grump too–that probably has to do with part of it!)
Either way, I think I’ll be taking a break from felting knits for awhile.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I really like the idea of felting, but once I’ve finished the project, I’m kinda like, “okay, now what?”. I do think that there are good felting projects out there, though. I like the ones in the book entitled, Felted Knits, by …can’t remember the author… Oh well. Just to let you know, I’m with you on this one.
Having never actually done or researched felting, I would never know it is a “sloppy” project. It looks like it would have taken forever to do & I like the bag. It’s very cute.