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Post by Cherry on Jan 15, 2020 15:01:26 GMT
Has anyone made useful kitchen things by felting? We are staying at an rv park with a great crafts room right now, and there is a lady making those bowl cozy things with cotton fabric and polyester batting. She uses them IN and out of the microwave. Sounds like a kitchen fire waiting to happen? Wouldn't wool felt serve the same purpose and be a bit safer since it is self-extinguishing/doesn't melt?
I had some felted wool sweater scraps that I made into one of those little pot/pan holders that are shaped...umm, well, the kind that is usually made of silicone and your fingers go in one pocket and your thumb goes in the other. The kind that you'd maybe put on your hand and chase someone with, pretending it's an alligator coming to bite them. Anyway, I made it because I needed something and was too cheap to pay 6+ bucks for a little silicone thing. Now I'm thinking of wet felting some of these, and a hot pad or two, also. Can you see any drawbacks to using wool in the kitchen and at the stove? Has anyone got wool felt in service in their kitchens now?
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 15, 2020 15:55:18 GMT
hi yes, wool is more fire-resistant. For me, the biggest drawback would be washability. if you fulled it to the maximum so you could toss it in the washing machine then it would be easy. Otherwise, you have to wash them by hand. I do that with my cup cozies but they usually just have coffee on them.
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Post by MTRuth on Jan 15, 2020 16:56:18 GMT
I have a wool mitten type hot pad and a wool square hot pad or trivet. They were given to me by a friend and they were actually knitted and then fulled but would work the same way as a wet felted piece. I throw them in the washing machine when they get dirty. I have never had an issue with anything catching fire or burning.
By the way, I do have one of those cotton fabric bowl cozy things that goes in the microwave. They work great for heating up soup etc. so you don't have to touch the hot bowl. Never had an issue with one and I have been using them for years.
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Post by lyn on Jan 15, 2020 17:15:57 GMT
Frances made some bowl covers: link |
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Post by Cherry on Jan 15, 2020 22:27:45 GMT
Love those bowl cozy things. Thanks for the link.
I'm not discouraged by anything posted here yet. 😊 I have this vague idea of using up all of the little bits of wool I have left after finishing all of my daughter's slippers. My hands need a little more rest before I tackle the last two pair.
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Post by lindsay on Jan 15, 2020 22:38:57 GMT
Several people who post here make beautiful tea cosies and coffee press / cafetière covers. Off the top of my head, I know Tracey makes sheep ones and if you look at Felicity’s post ‘my new website’ on the ‘general discussions’ board and follow the link to her site you can see her gorgeous floral covers / cosies. I often see felt pot stands for sale, sometimes they’re made from rolled balls of felt sewn together which might be an idea for using up different colours of leftovers.
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Post by Cherry on Jan 16, 2020 16:53:05 GMT
Ah- tea cozies! I have seen them in my poking around here. I confess to not having thought of them as useful kitchen things, but rather beautiful home decor details. Blame it on me being a coffee gulping Yankee! I've now adjusted my thoughts on tea cozies.
Thanks for pointing me to examples. I'll look around when its time to rest. Right now, I think its time to start a pair of slippers. Or do the laundry. The struggle to decide is not over yet!
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Post by lindsay on Jan 17, 2020 7:16:21 GMT
Ha, ha, that struggle is never over (as my heaped-up laundry basket could testify). And stereotypes are not always true - I’m a coffee drinking Brit. Never touch that nasty black tea / milk combo.
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Post by lyn on Jan 17, 2020 7:35:22 GMT
What?!? I'm reading your post Lindsay as I sip at my first Yorkshire tea of the day. It's nectar and makes my world go round.  |
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 17, 2020 21:44:48 GMT
I forgot about tea cozies and coffee cozies. Coffee in the morning and Tea the rest of the day. I only ever use the cozies when the power goes out. The rest of the time the teapot is on the stove.
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Post by lindsay on Jan 19, 2020 22:19:34 GMT
What?!? I'm reading your post Lindsay as I sip at my first Yorkshire tea of the day. It's nectar and makes my world go round. Haha, Lyn, you’re welcome to my share too! I have to tell you, though, I’m from Yorkshire and I’ve never yet spotted a tea bush there. |
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Post by lyn on Jan 20, 2020 8:38:44 GMT
I've been told that the tea bushes in Yorkshire are grown in a very high and very secret location so that's probably why you've never seen them. |
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 20, 2020 13:06:33 GMT
Maybe they grow it in caves like thier rhubarb. LOL
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Post by Frances on Jan 29, 2020 15:36:30 GMT
Lyn thanks for posting the link to my bowl covers - I use one most every day when microwaving soup or leftovers in a bowl. No burned fingers or spills. If something spills on it I wash or rinse it off right away and place it on the overturned bowl and it is dry the next morning.
As far as Tea - Camellia sinensis is a species of evergreen shrub or small tree whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. I grow it for the beautiful blooms - it is native to China.
I think pot holders are a great idea - many are so flimsy I use two to make sure I do not get burned.
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