I’m not a giver-upper, so I tried again to recreate the really cool project idea I discovered in New Mexico. This time I made a bowl out of wool & mohair, which I then felted.
felted bowl, before stiffening
Felting is a fancy word for “the thing that happens when you put wool in the washing machine” – yes, that’s right. Shrinking. I’m not usually a fan of felting, but I wanted to give it a whirl. I washed this bad boy in hot water (in the washing machine) a few times, then dried it in the drier. I forgot to take a picture of what it looked like before the felting. It looked like a bowl, only floppy, okay? Okay. Next step: stiffening.
We all remember what happened last time I tried to stiffen something, so this time I consulted the interwebs and made my own stiffening mixture, which included corn starch, water, and sugar.
like gravy, only sweeter!
I dunked my bowl in the mixture and set it out to dry on a bowl form, just as the interwebs instructed me to do.
what's that in the background? sprouts AND a plarn scrubbie? gosh, isn't THAT a coincidence?
It did not work at all.
Plan B: I painted on some store bought stiffening goop leftover from the Fail Boat Project and ended up with this:
Not too shabby! I’m still not convinced that felting or stiffening are *good* ideas, but in this case, at least they didn’t suck. })i({
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