Comments on: Knitted Felted Bowl Pattern

By: tracy

tracy — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:56:07 +0000

very nice bowls. I thought I’d mention to Shelia and anyone else interested that I use the Magic Loop method, thus eliminating DPNs!

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:35:05 +0000

You might be able to do it with one of those really short circular needles. The problem you’ll run into is when you get down to sixteen or twelve stitches or so.

By: sheila

sheila — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:16:12 +0000

Just wondering if it was mandatory to use the dpn’s. I don’t know how to use them and wondered if I could just use the circular needles through the whole project. Would it affect the outcome?

Thanks,
Sheila

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:01:57 +0000

I felt these bowls on the stove top in a big pot. Water is very hot that way and I mash the bowl with a wooden spoon and paddle. It takes some time and a lot of arm action but it is easier to check the progress (plus I don’t have a top load machine). Every 10 minutes or so, I shock the bowl with cold water and squeeze then return it to the hot water. It seems to help the felting process.

By: Ro

Ro — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:02:53 +0000

I have done felting in a front loader, the slamming action like hitting clothes with a rock seems to work fine.
I must say that I prefer to run it through twice to get the best felt.
I also have a front loader dryer that I turn on high heat

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:57:22 +0000

It’s US size.

By: christine nicholson

christine nicholson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:03:13 +0000

when you are talking about which size of knitting needles to use to knit the felt bowls are using US or metric size.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:04:43 +0000

There’s some disagreement about whether felting is possible in a front loading machine. Some people claim that it doesn’t agitate as well as a top loader. I don’t have personal felting experience with front loaders, so I can’t really weigh in on this. But since all machines are different, I think that you can’t generalize and lump all front loaders together. And actually, with top loaders, you may need to run a couple, or even more, cycles to get the felting tight.

If you are willing to give it a shot, I would first see how your machine does with a swatch. This won’t give you a completely realistic idea of how your item will turn out if you have one of the machines that locks until the cycle is completely over, as anything larger than a swatch may get sadly stretched out and creased by the spin cycle.

If you have a front loader that will allow you to jump in and open it right before the spin cycle, then I’d say it’s definitely worth a shot.

By: christina wildau

christina wildau — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:58:56 +0000

I am interested in felting bags but have an automatic front loading machine. How can I felt bags if I need to check them every so often?

Advice would be appreciated

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:20:59 +0000

Hi Ashley,

You can change to DPN right away, or when you have so few stitches on the circular that they’re stretching tight. With DPN, you want to divide the stitches equally among all three or four needles. Then just decrease using two needles at a time.

I hope I answered your question – if not, just let me know.