A month ago, with the help and encouragement of my wonderful friend
Kim, I began my first pair of gloves.
I had been wanting to use the acid-green mohair that came from these adorable angora goats for some time now.
I just
love this wild color!!
As Kim advised, if you try these, remember to make a
bump at the 'wrist' of your resist...
...whew...what a tongue twister!...
...or else you will never get them on after felting.
She also suggested...
...(after my failure, when I wrote to her, asking for suggestions)...
...wrapping the other fingers in plastic as you work on each one...
...something that had eluded me as I struggled to keep the gloves from turning into mittens! Grin.
My biggest difficulty, however, was that I had made the
fatal felting foible of
not making a sample first!
So, yes, I was lazy and I got what I got...
...which is a pair of gloves that
look adorable...
...but which never fully felted and are still 'hairy and slippery', inside and out.
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The fix, Kim advises, is to cover them with a fine layer of wool that I
know felts well...
...but because I found this project rather
difficult and trying...
...the idea of wrapping each finger again is not 'sending me anywhere'.
So here they sit...
...for now.
