My flatmate has this theory that there are few things in the world that can't be inproved by throwing in a cable.
I was using a leftover half ball of tweed to do a felted case for my new electronic diary and I thought test this out.
Its inspired in part by Alterknits - Radford suggests felting old jumpers into bags and some of the ones in the photo looked cabled. I wasn't sure how it'd work out, this was really just a test run, but I like it. You loose the definition in the felting but that's part of the beauty - I like to think of it as a "sunken cable".
Next time I'll try with with wool that gives a better stitch definition and work a more complex cable. All I have to decide now is weather felted cabled socks would be (a) be too thick and (b) involve too-painful maths.
8 comments:
sunken cable
felting in all that water
nice
Felted cabled socks? Do you mean short ones?
Anyway, give a try! I'd really like to see, how it turns out.
I had problems with felted socks, but it might have been that I didn't block properly.
Your flatmate sounds like my daughter, the cable girl.
New to your blog. I'll return. I found you from a lollypost.
I hate these cables, I always leave them in the bus every week hahaha, nice post, i have issues with socks too.
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