How to Felt Crochet Items by Hand, and Get It Right! - Part 2

In this part of this 'how-to' I will be sharing with you my experience of the different phases your crochet item will go through when you are felting/fulling it and what to look out for. In the previous part I covered the materials, type of stitches, and other dos and don'ts. If you missed that, here is a link to Part 1.

Phase #1 - Stretchy, doughy
In this 'how-to' I started the process with boiling hot water and a few drops of dish washing liquid. I use what I think is a potato masher and press on the piece and stir it around a little. As the water was too hot to get in with my hands I just left it for a bit.

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5 Things I Learned from Selling Handmade Items at a Stall

So I did my first market! Hoorah! Made one sale and really happy about that. You must be wondering what the hell I'm happy about? Continue reading and you might understand why.

1. Know who you might be selling to
I heard about this 'market' a little late from a fellow team member of the Finland Handcrafters Team.

How to Felt Crochet Items by Hand, and Get It Right! - Part 1

There are many knit felting tutorials out there that just don't seem to work with crochet. After several failures, chapped hands and many wasted hours, I finally got it right! So here are my tips for getting your crochet item to felt.

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Kristinakaupunkki, Cemetry

Helsinki!

Here we are, Helsinki! I am not too sure if this was the best time to move to Finland, as it is a shock to our senses moving from +30C degrees to -10C! But the first few days it did feel like we were in a winter wonderland. Anything that was a horizontal plane was covered with white soft snow! I absolutely loved every thing I saw.

Quickly reality kicked in and the snow decides to melt over the next few days of our arrival. I still did think it was really pretty where we were staying, which was a suburb 20 mins out of the city. The sun shined a little and cast a very soft light over the trees and cute little homes.

Work in Progress - Christmas Stock!!

I've been working hard on stocking my shop Kotona with Christmas useful gifts and home decor that serves a purpose!

 Ready items off to photograph soon!