I am not sure I have shared it openly on my blog yet, but I am actually using up my entire stash of wool right now. I have so much wool and yarn that I bought in the last 15+ years that sometimes I think I could open a shop (and this is NOT intended as a flex)… so I have decided to not buy any more of it until I finish what I have.
To be fair, right now I also have no budget for any more wool and yarn, so I thought I would just go for it and try and make something beautiful out of the kilograms of wool that I have, forgotten in the attic.
So, when I got a request for a bag from my nephew (it is a gift), I went and picked some of the first wool I ever bought, which was a Kg of light brown roving… to see if I could make the bag out of it.
The thing is: old wool doesn’t always felt nicely, because it is much more dry and brittle than fresh wool… so I simply thought that I would try and see: if the bag would turn out well, I would gift it, if it wouln’t, I would simply remake it with another kind of wool.
To be fair, I just picked the wool by its color, because this first haul of wool that I bought over 15 years ago was not labeled. I believe it didn’t even reach me labeled… But I also never bothered to label what it was! So I also have no clue what kind of wool I was working with: it might be some breed of sheep wool or alpaca… I have no way to know.
To be completely honest, I was asked to add an owl or a wolf on the front of the bag, BUT I was honsetly worried I would mess up the bag (I am not so confident in my needle felting portrait abilities… and I never needle felted a wolf or an owl before) so I opted for very easy owl tracks in snow 😀
But, even thought it was pretty difficult to make the wool take up the soapy water, and I did have few spots that needed needle felting correction, I am really happy at how the bag turned out!
Do you have a huge stash of wool too? What are your plans with it?
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