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	<title>SeaStrands Studio Weblog &#187; wool</title>
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	<description>The creative endeavours of Vicky Taylor-Hood, a textile artist from Newfoundland, Canada</description>
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		<title>Feeling fuzzy-handed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not really &#8220;work&#8221; work, but&#8230;

I&#8217;ve been knitting a lot, lately, in and around other things. I don&#8217;t knit in the warmer months as I find my hands just get too sweaty, but cold winter evenings are perfect for clicking together needles (I like bamboo) and wool. This winter, I&#8217;ve discovered the joys of felting [...]]]></description>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seastrands/361559331/"><img alt="Soy-wool, felted" src="http://static.flickr.com/160/361559331_2a17aab7c5.jpg" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been knitting a lot, lately, in and around other things. I don&#8217;t knit in the warmer months as I find my hands just get too sweaty, but cold winter evenings are perfect for clicking together needles (I like bamboo) and wool. This winter, I&#8217;ve discovered the joys of felting or fulling wool and have been trying different types of wools, just for kicks. This is a 70% wool, 30% soy silk mixture, which is beautifully soft to handle and felts rather nicely.</p>
<p><em>Warning note: make sure you felt wools inside some sort of bag (i.e. a pillowcase) when using the washing machine. Felting sheds fibres and the soy-wool mixture sheds more than most!</em></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seastrands/361559289/"><img alt="fuzzy" src="http://static.flickr.com/128/361559289_1aa08b38d1.jpg" /></a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seastrands/361559320/"><img alt="sample of soy-wool" src="http://static.flickr.com/123/361559320_025c00bf86.jpg" /></a></p>
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