The picture to the left shows them before felting.
Yarn: Brown Sheep Worsted and some left over alpaca yarn from over 6 years ago.
Yarn Enabler: Knit-a-way
Time it takes: About 17 minutes for each flower.
These are quick to knit, but sort of hard to form. I've picked the felted ones, but I don't have a washing machine, so I decide to hand-felt them in my sink. Not so bad, I can handle this.
But in the end. They aren't going to do AT ALL. Way too big, heavy, and they look like...well..lumps of felted wool, rather than the charming roses I had hoped for. And the alpaca ones didn't work out even a little bit, so I'd also have to do about 15 more roses in the next 3 days.
So no knitted corsages for the singers of the Class of 2007. Zut alors!
I'm not going to digress from my knitting plans and plan to return to regularly-scheduled knitting.
2 comments:
C'est la vie. Two semesters of college French and I still had to look that up! It's the thought that counts, maybe next year.
I have a pattern by Nicky Epstein for knitted flowers that was in vogue knits about two years ago. If you want I can type it out and send it to you. They're quick and easy, no felting required! There's an awfully bad picture of one here: http://othersideofthepom.blogspot.com/2005/10/roses-in-autumn.html
From back in the day when I thought acrylic was still acceptable....
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