Then a friend stopped by to help hold the house intact - and we fixed the hot water problem, basketball hoop calamity, and laughed about the unfixable electrical problem. Teenager was semi-helpful. The crisis was passed for the moment. But I was so out of sorts and had a looming cooking spree ahead of me (every Saturday night we make homemade sauce, pizza dough & toppings for pizza & movie night but I usually have help!)
In the spirit of a true knitter, I decided to make the dough and let it rise while brownies baked in the oven. During my 20 minute "lull" I decided to get out my knit-but-never-felted tea cozy. I made two last year and finished one but not the second. The knitting is done - just hadn't worked out how to hand felt it without fearing it's total destruction into a mass of boiled wool. Watched a video on Lets Knit2Gether the other night and was inspired to try some hand felting.
So I pour myself a glass of Australian Chardonnay and crank up Handel's Messiah on the speakers and started hand felting. On the podcast the machine felting took about 11 minutes. It takes a little more time by hand! I rubbed & scrubbed & added boiling water & rubbed & kneaded for over 20 minutes. It looks great. No major disaster. The music was expansive and moving and the felting process was physically releasing and emotionally charging to finally take this project by the horns.
It was too cramped time-wise for me to take photos but it's set up in position and drying even as I type. I'll get some shots in the light tomorrow and get them posted. A successful felting deserves a good photo!
Unfortunately my right shoulder is painful tonight. Making pizza dough by hand and felting with great passion have inflamed my shoulder. I'm typing with a hot water bottle propped up against my shoulderblade. The feel of felting!
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