Okay, I have felted about 6 purses this winter…I even just finished a booga…thought I would never do one but love it…however, I just had a disaster with felting…
I went to my LYS and bought lovely plymoth wool to make a knitting tote and wanted it felted…they had a great pattern that was unfelted and the lady at the shop and I decided that if I expanded all measurements by 1/3 both length and width, that I would have a nice size felted knitting tote when I finished…wrong…the 16 x 24 tote that I expected to felt in at around 12 by 18…came out 14 x 8, yes, I listed that correctly…it felted so disportionately that I am baffled. I had previously used the same yarn and felted a very cute purse for my sister and the felting was almost proportional…Now here is my question, all items I had previously felted were in the round…this disaster was knitted straight…would knitting in the round make that much difference. My husband who ran a textile knitting plant said that he thought that might have made the difference…I fell so “stupid” but the biggest problem is I feel that I wasted $30 of good wool and a weeks worth of knitting in evenings.
Any suggestions for a felted knitting tote…any comments…I don’t want this to ever happen again.
I’m so sorry