These are my fun, mindless creations!
I just sit and knit until I think the dimensions are okay. Then I stitch up the sides, leave a flap and felt it in my washing machine. I have a front loader washing machine and they do not felt well at all. However, it works find for these smaller pieces because I can let them spin. NOTHING spins like a top loader!!! I can also further SHOCK my felt by dumping boiling water on it, with a wee bit of laundry soap, agitating it and hitting it with a potato masher and then rinse it in COLD, COLD water. After I shape it and let it dry for a few days I make a design on the front with dry needle felting.
Confession time: The top one was SO ugly after I felted. I thought, "How can I send this to someone??" I added the green because that was her favorite color. I didn't have the green when I started the pouch. So my mind went crazy thinking how I could make it more appealing. I added more green with overhand stitching on the sides and then tried different needle felting designs. Nothing was looking good so I ripped them out. I turned to beads for some sparkle on the sides, Rissy picked out the orange button and that is what inspired me to add the sun. Then came the sparkled spirals. The bead work took a bit of time, but it was relaxing to sit and hand sew during American Idol. :-0
It is the pouch I get the MOST compliments on. Isn't that funny! Just like an ugly duckling story.
These were my first coin purses:
I love the two tone blue one and how nice the flap curved. The ribbing in the taupe one is cool, but I don't recall if I did that on purpose or not.
