First Felter question

How-to Questions
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I’m making my first attempt at felting a knitted object. It’s supposed to be a wine bottle cozy, so it’s basically a knitted tube with a bottom. It’s currently going thru the wash cycle a third time…At this point it’s definately starting to look like felt and has shrunk quite a bit heightwise, but not a whole lot circumference/width wise. It’s still too big :frowning:

Is there a point where it just won’t shrink that way anymore? I’m afraid I just may have made it too big. It kinda looks like it might be a cute gift bag or something though. Otherwise I’m gonna have to find a JUG of wine to put in it. Heh…

If you have any tips I’d love to hear them.
thanks

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Totally depends on the yarn. Some felt in one or two cycles…the first clogs I felted took almost 3 hours. :shock: That was extreme, though…

You may want to shock it – take it out of the hot water and plunge it in very cold water…then back in the hot for more agitation.

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i am told you can also but the items in the dryer for urgent felting, but haven’t tried it yet. hope it works out!

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I am certainly not an expert as I have only felted a few sets of mittens. However, what I do is pull the item when I do a felting check. If my mittens are getting too short then I pull them out long which decreases the width. I just kind of pull it out to the right proportion every time I do a check until they reach the right size I want. I hope that helps.