{"id":493,"date":"2007-12-16T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T02:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2014-11-04T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T03:30:36","slug":"fo-adinkra-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"FO – adinkra bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between shoveling snow this weekend I finished the adinkra bag. Here it is before felting (under incandescent lights in the living room),<\/p>\n

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… and after about three 12-minute cycles of small hot wash all alone in the washing machine (under the fluorescent light in the cellar):
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It shrunk from about 8 1\/2 inches wide down to 7 1\/2, and more than that proportionally in height, and got lots firmer and nice and felty. Also, I really don’t think it wants to curl at the top any more. This picture was taken as soon as it came out of the spin dry cycle, and I don’t know for sure how it will be when it’s dry.<\/p>\n

Again, the yarn was Cascade 220. The saleswoman at Black Sheep Knitting Co. said it would felt, but I wasn’t sure she was directing me specifically to wool that would felt as opposed to just “aw, get some wool, it’ll felt, all this section is wool.”<\/p>\n

This project was kind of a milestone for me:<\/p>\n

* First intarsia project. I like doing it fine. I’ll look more seriously at Kaffee Fasset books if I see them on markdown in the future. Maybe at full price, even. Maybe not.
\n* First i-cord. It really is as easy as people say. I did this on 2 DPNs. I tried some on a knitting spool I had made a couple of years ago but never really used, also, to compare how fast the different techniques were. The spool knitting was more uniform, except for one really bad spot. I couldn’t decide which was faster. The trouble with the spool is that you can’t see what you’ve done until you’ve done three more inches.
\n* First successful felting. I’m a believer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In between shoveling snow this weekend I finished the adinkra bag. Here it is before felting (under incandescent lights in the living room), … and after about three 12-minute cycles of small hot wash all alone in the washing machine (under the fluorescent light in the cellar): It shrunk from about 8 1\/2 inches wide … <\/p>\n

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