{"id":28,"date":"2006-11-26T21:18:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T21:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letsknit2gether.electronicsprocket.com\/blog1\/2006\/11\/26\/lk2g-007-felting-a-science-experiment-pt-1\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:11:13","slug":"lk2g-007-felting-a-science-experiment-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/2006\/11\/26\/lk2g-007-felting-a-science-experiment-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"lk2g-007 Felting aka The Science Experiment, Pt. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIsv3_ay264\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Felting is the processes of purposely destroying your knitting.  Its like a science experiment. Watch our experiment as we felt a bag.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, we take you through what felting is and the steps of how to prepare for the felting process.<\/p>\n<p>See these sites for further information on: <a title=\"Info on felting by hand\" href=\"http:\/\/knitting.about.com\/gi\/dynamic\/offsite.htm?zi=1\/XJ\/Ya&amp;sdn=knitting&amp;cdn=hobbies&amp;tm=7&amp;gps=47_9_1248_822&amp;f=00&amp;su=p662.5.140.ip_p445.92.150.ip_&amp;tt=14&amp;bt=0&amp;bts=0&amp;zu=http%3A\/\/gfwsheep.com\/felting\/felt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Felting by hand<\/a>, and <a title=\"Instructions for Front Loading machines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.felted-bags.com\/front-loading-machine.htm\" target=\"_blank\">felting in a front loading washing machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Come back for part 2 to find out how to finish what we started in this episode.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s on the set:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Booga Bag on Black Sheep Bags site.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksheepbags.com\/booga_bag.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #bb4411;\">Booga bag<\/span><\/a> by <a title=\"Boogaj site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boogaj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #bb4411;\">Julie<\/span><\/a> (mine was modified to be wider) made with Noro Big Kureyon and Reynold\u2019s Lopi My.  Completed Winter 2006<\/li>\n<li>Market Squares Bag &#8211; <a title=\"Bags:A Knitters Dozen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1893762203\/sr=8-1\/qid=1156438888\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-5264464-6221521?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #bb4411;\">Bags: A Knitters Dozen<\/span><\/a> made with Patons\u2019 Wool.   Completed Fall 2005<\/li>\n<li>The bag we are felting is the <a title=\"Flowers on the Go pattern at KnitWitts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knitwitts.com\/item\/AC_63X_Flowers_on_the_Go\/4198\/c214\" target=\"_blank\">Fiber Trends: Flowers on the Go<\/a> knitted with <a title=\"Iceland Print yarn at Yarnmarket.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnmarket.com\/yarn\/Crystal_Palace_Yarn-Iceland_Print_Yarn-1777.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace Iceland Print<\/a> yarn in the Icestorm color<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>What I am wearing:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A T-Shirt knit with a DK weight Indian Cotton yarn.  The pattern is from a Fashion Knitting magazine from mid 1990s.  I have no idea anymore which one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felting is the processes of purposely destroying your knitting. Its like a science experiment. Watch our experiment as we felt a bag. In the episode, we take you through what felting is and the steps of how to prepare for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/2006\/11\/26\/lk2g-007-felting-a-science-experiment-pt-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,4,6,5],"tags":[280,275,29,277,278,30,16,732,289,290,315,529,28,276,61,181,24,279,32,20,731,528,92,63],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demo","category-episode","category-knitting","category-video-podcast","tag-cat","tag-craft","tag-felting","tag-fiber","tag-fiber-arts","tag-fulling","tag-knit","tag-knitting","tag-lets-knit2gether","tag-letsknit2gethercom","tag-lk2g","tag-mesh-bag","tag-podcast","tag-purl","tag-ravelry","tag-spin","tag-spinning","tag-stitch","tag-stitches","tag-video","tag-video-podcast","tag-washing-machine","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1209,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsknit2gether.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}