{"id":51,"date":"2005-05-31T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/finished-felted-knitted-bag\/"},"modified":"2005-05-31T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T14:28:00","slug":"finished-felted-knitted-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/31\/finished-felted-knitted-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished! Felted knitted bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally finished my felted knitted bag! I used 4 strands held together of 2ply lambswool from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wools.co.uk\/\">Uppingham Yarns<\/a> and 8mm needles. The after finishing and sewing together I put it through the wash twice at 40 degrees on a cottons wash with my towels. This is what it looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/640\/P1010139.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:#000000 1px solid;border-top:#000000 1px solid;border-left:#000000 1px solid;border-bottom:#000000 1px solid;margin:2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/320\/P1010139.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Felted knitted bag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hello.com\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0;border-top:0;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0 0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;padding:0;\" alt=\"Posted by Hello\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbh.gif\" align=\"absMiddle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is it with the fold over flap lifted up so you can see the colour variation better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/640\/P1010144.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:#000000 1px solid;border-top:#000000 1px solid;border-left:#000000 1px solid;border-bottom:#000000 1px solid;margin:2px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/img\/158\/5099\/320\/P1010144.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Felted knitted bag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hello.com\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right:0;border-top:0;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0 0;border-left:0;border-bottom:0;padding:0;\" alt=\"Posted by Hello\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbh.gif\" align=\"absMiddle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think when I sewed it up I made the flap over a little long and consequently the bag a little short, but you live and learn \ud83d\ude42 I have started another one in purple now, and have plans to make a shaded purple and black one after that. Felted bags are such a great use for all those beautiful buttons you find but can&#8217;t work out what to do with!<\/p>\n<p>At knitting group on Wednesday we had an open session where people knit on whatever they like rather than a workshop on a particular technique, so I started another hat for Nanny, same pattern as before but in a mauve-y coloured yarn. I just checked my diary and discovered that though I was convinced Nanny&#8217;s birthday was the middle of June, actually it is the middle of July so I have a bit longer for her hats.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, the other half organised all his wiring and computer bits in the bedroom and you can now actually see the floor &#8211; shock horror! He now keeps looking at the pile of my wool in the computer room in the hope that I will organise it soon. I am getting there, some has moved, I am just a rather slow knitter! Not much blogging or knitting requiring brain got done last week as I have a nasty gnat bite on the foot and the antihistamines have a tendency to knock me out rather. I&#8217;m back in the land of the living now though, lots of things to catch up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally finished my felted knitted bag! I used 4 strands held together of 2ply lambswool from Uppingham Yarns and 8mm needles. The after finishing and sewing together I put it through the wash twice at 40 degrees on a cottons wash with my towels. This is what it looks like: Felted knitted bag And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}