Post by wolgelukkig on Jan 27, 2017 13:31:11 GMT
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Yesterday I was with a friend experimenting with prefelt and locks. We decided to make a soft scarf and we wanted to wear it folded so the alpaca locks had to be felted above the middle part to have them hanging down halfway. I used very long white alpaca locks on Ideen extra thin white prefelt ( Flyfell) with silk throwsterwaist as embellishment and my friend used Wensleydale locks on the same prefelt, but she covered the scarve with one very thin layer of grey Gotland wooltop on each side and she embellished it with white linen fibers. We were surprised to find out it took a very long time to get the prefelt felted, but after a long time the job was done and the pinchtest was succesfull. My friend fulled by rolling and rubbing and lazy me put the scarve wrapped in plastic in a pantyhose and for half an hour in the dryer. We were both very happy with the result. The scarve of my friend was a bit stiff and we thought it would be better to wear it as a vest, so she will knit a backside to the scarve. My scarf was rather soft and I put it in a dyebath of madame Meilland Dupont silk/wool paint.
When it came out it was very, véry, véry! orange so again in the dyebath and this time with Kemtex chestnut to tone the orange down. And now I am so happy with it, the alpaca gives a big fluffy fur after combing and the color looks as if on fire in the sunshine.
Yesterday I was with a friend experimenting with prefelt and locks. We decided to make a soft scarf and we wanted to wear it folded so the alpaca locks had to be felted above the middle part to have them hanging down halfway. I used very long white alpaca locks on Ideen extra thin white prefelt ( Flyfell) with silk throwsterwaist as embellishment and my friend used Wensleydale locks on the same prefelt, but she covered the scarve with one very thin layer of grey Gotland wooltop on each side and she embellished it with white linen fibers. We were surprised to find out it took a very long time to get the prefelt felted, but after a long time the job was done and the pinchtest was succesfull. My friend fulled by rolling and rubbing and lazy me put the scarve wrapped in plastic in a pantyhose and for half an hour in the dryer. We were both very happy with the result. The scarve of my friend was a bit stiff and we thought it would be better to wear it as a vest, so she will knit a backside to the scarve. My scarf was rather soft and I put it in a dyebath of madame Meilland Dupont silk/wool paint.
When it came out it was very, véry, véry! orange so again in the dyebath and this time with Kemtex chestnut to tone the orange down. And now I am so happy with it, the alpaca gives a big fluffy fur after combing and the color looks as if on fire in the sunshine.
