I’m currently working on the Heroine sweater from the Winter 2008 edition of the wonderful new online magazine, Twist Collective. Although I’ve been a knitter for a really long time – since I was about 7 years old or so, I think this is only the second fulling project I’ve done. 1 The first was a much smaller-scale project: a felted bucket hat from a ChicKnits pattern.
This is my progress so far – the back of the sweater, fresh off the needles and unblocked. It looks much too long to me now, but I have to keep reminding myself that knitted garments shrink a lot more lengthwise than width-wise when they are fulled, so with any luck, it should work out just fine. This is another fairly easy knit – mostly basic stockinette stitch and reverse stockinette stitch, with decreases for the armscyes and a few buttonholes. It’s also quick – it uses two strands of Cascade 220 held together, and large needles.
More on this in a few days as the knitting progresses.
1 A side note: the more technical among us will insist on calling the process of knitting/weaving/crocheting a piece of fabric then shrinking it ‘fulling’, and the process of shrinking fiber that hasn’t been knitted/woven/crocheted ‘felting’. However, many people use the term ‘felting’ for either process. I don’t generally have a preference.
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