This hasn't anything to do with Monday night crafts, but it does have to do with crafts, so here I am, posting.
Grrr. I made a pair of cursed felted clogs, in theory for Craig's dad for Christmas, and the @#&%$( things won't felt down small enough. Not only that, they're just too big around everywhere - too high in the instep, etc. - so I can't just pick someone with bigger feet. This is four hot/cold cycles on heavy duty agitation. My last attempt to salvage them will be to pour a kettle of boiling water into the hot cycle, for a little more "oomph".
But if that does not work, I wasted a bunch of time, but way more importantly, some of my favorite hand-dyed yarn. WAH!!!
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That sucks, isn't that the second pair of slippers you have tried to make him? He better appreciate his gift.
awww.... :-(
Yes it is. The first is on my feet right now (felted too much, fits me but not him).
Argh.
Will. Try. Again.
Have you tried throwing a pair of old jeans or clean running shoes into the washer for maximum friction?
That totally sucks. When I made my felted clogs for Gramma the pattern worked so well that I want to make some for my poor cold feet.
I didn't do the jeans thing, though I don't know why - I usually do. However, they've been through five hot/cold cycles, the last of which was with a kettle full of boiling water added, plus a dryer run. They are as felted as they can possibly be.
Wanda suggested that I could cut them, trim them, and re-sew. That probably will work, actually, rather than pitching them in the garbage.
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