If you have visited my Etsy shop in the past, you know that I have created some felted bowls. Some of them, I have used as gifts, others as prizes – it’s a work of love for me to see the results

Here’s a post about one of my bowls offered as a prize!

And another post where I talk about how I got started felting.

I’ve garnered advice from many of my friends, and I’m always trying to come up with different looks.

Recently I made some bowls with different types of wool yarn. This one came out really fuzzy – I actually like the way it looks!

This one was made with alpaca – first time I’ve tried a felted bowl with it. Used 2 strands – didn’t really stiffen up like I like – but turned out that it was the ‘perfect’ bowl for a friend.

This is the before

And this is the after

My latest bowl has been a struggle. I bought some hand dyed wool yarn from a new Etsy shop – and when I tried to use the yarn, it kept twisting tighter and tighter as I crocheted. Sought advice from several people, and was just about ready to pitch the yarn. It was a nice yarn with thicker and thinner sections – figured it would work up nicely. I talked with a gal in the local yarn shop (I say local – I think it’s the only yarn shop within 100 miles of me – and it’s about 30 miles from my house) – and she said to attach something to the ball and let it unwind periodically. So dh suggested a clothespin.

This bowl took me a lot longer to crochet – as I was having to stitch a little and then unwind – it was an experience. I haven’t felted it yet – but I took my basic bowl pattern, where I would normally stop, I decreased stitches, and then when I was satisfied with the decrease, I started increasing – I used the whole skein!

Can’t wait to see how it turns out once it’s felted.

Sandi