I crack up sometimes when I read what people are searching for when they end up here. This week some readers arrived after googling: band saw massacre, little nipples, Pacific Northwest spiders, I am an acne pimple, the life cycle of a frog, and I love food. Here are my two favourites: someone arrived at Life’s A Stitch, a knitting blog, by searching for "what colour does breathalyser go if positive" and "who invented the potato powered clock." It makes me conscious of how I arrive at other’s sites. I’m sure my searches have left bloggers scratching their heads.
Here in the Northwest, when it’s sunny it rains. Now when someone googles about Northwest weather they might arrive at a knitting blog.
I’ve had several questions about the definition of worming and the felting process with Touch Me. Here are the answers:
1. Definition of worming: Chenille, due to its construction, has a tendency for stitches to pop out. If you look at a flat piece of work, the wormed stitches look like little caterpillars. It’s almost as if the stitches unknit themselves. Very annoying.
2. I had seen examples of felted Touch Me items at two knit shops. The third place had never heard of it, but when I saw the suggestion in Sally Melville’s book I went for it. My worms were HUGE loops, just not acceptable. I put the scarf in a large lingerie bag, washed it in hot water AND put it in the dryer without the bag. It is a hard little lump after washing and the dryer turns it into a nice fabric. At one knit shop the woman actually boiled it, but I thought her colours looked faded and colour is part of the beauty of Touch Me. Go for it and let me know how it turned out.
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