Felted Basket
As soon as I took my last final, my friends and I went yarn shopping in anticipation of the winter break. And I finished a couple of knitting projects and I think these are my favorite. The basket is for my sister who needed something to hang on her bedpost for her remotes. Click here for a ravelry link to the pattern and my ravelry project page for details. It was pretty mindless knitting and I love that I had free reign over the color repeats. I just went with it and I think the color combinations turned out great.
Yorick
Yorick, came out better than I hoped. The pattern calls for hand felting but I couldn’t be bothered with it. I tried for a couple of minutes and I couldn’t do it. It felt like my skin was going to slough off. Not pleasant, so I just felted the whole thing in my top loading machine. Next time, I will remember that it is pretty important to the overall design factor to cut out the eyes and nose before felting is finished. I cut out the eyes after all the felting was done and it was hard to get clean lines. I had to stop myself from going overboard in trying to get perfect ovals for the eyes and triangles for the nose. It kind of ended up looking like a snake but I’m happy with the results.
