On Ravelry, I found a pattern for a little bag to hold your spinning accessories, so while I was waiting for my Joy to arrive, I knitted it. It was supposed to be knitted first, on big 8mm needles, and then felted. I used some of my last handspun from the S10, which I had navaho plied twice (9 ply in total!). Since I was going to felt the bag anyway, I didn’t bother to soak and rest the yarn before knitting. The pattern was quite easy, but getting the bag to felt was a different story…
First, I tried felting by hand. I threw the bag into hot water, added a lot of soap, and started moving it around, squeeking it together, and rubbing. That didn’t really result in a felted bag. So… I threw it into the washing machine, together with my pants, and washed it a full cycle on 30 degrees. It came out a little bit fuller, but you could still see the stitches quite clearly and it hadn’t shrunk at all! I didn’t know it was that hard to felt something – people do it by accident all the time, right?
I put it around a coffee tin and it was still ridiculously big, so I decided to put it back into the washing machine, together with some towels, and wash it on 95 degrees…! This had the desired result. I just love the word “haberdashery”, so I decided to call the bag my Haberdashery Holder. It’s very cute!
