{"id":214,"date":"2010-03-07T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2010-03-07T15:21:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T23:21:58","slug":"felted-ear-warmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Felted Ear Warmer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom’s mom, my wonderful mother-in-law’s, birthday is at the end of February.\u00a0 She loves walks, and being outside.\u00a0 She also lives in Baltimore, where they’ve been breaking all sorts of snowfall records this year. Clearly<\/em> she needed a knitted something for her birthday to help keep her warm on her walks in the snow.\u00a0 That “something” turned out to be a felted ear warmer from the Knit One Felt Too<\/a> <\/span>book, by\u00a0 .\u00a0 I have very little experience with felting, and since we’ve recently upgraded our washer to a fancy pants front loading one, I wasn’t sure how the felting would work.<\/div>\n
**Side note<\/strong> – “felting” is when you knit an oversize item out of 100% wool, (other animal fibers work as well), and shrink it down in the washing machine.\u00a0 Kind of the opposite of what you want to do with a wool sweater.\u00a0 The agitation of the washer and the water make the wool “felt”, which is to say “shrink” and “get all fuzzy”.<\/div>\n
Thankfully, due to the power of the internet, I was able to find directions for felting in a front loading washer, yay!\u00a0 I felted the ear warmer, pinned it out to dry on our ironing board, then sewed on some velcro for a closure.<\/div>\n
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Here I am modeling the ear warmer.<\/div>\n
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Please excuse the hair, and the fact that I look a bit blue in the photo, I couldn’t fix it in post processing, I’m not sure why.\u00a0 I think it has something to do with florescents + a flash.\u00a0 But I digress.\u00a0 I’m happy with the ear warmer.\u00a0 It was super fast and easy, and looks nice!\u00a0 Jennifer was happy too, which really was the main point in the first place!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom’s mom, my wonderful mother-in-law’s, birthday is at the end of February.\u00a0 She loves walks, and being outside.\u00a0 She also lives in Baltimore, where they’ve…<\/p>\n

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