The week that giveth and taketh away...

[susie_flo]

Garrgh!  
 
This afternoon I finished knitting the finest, softest, most delicious lacey stole known to man.  Having started it months ago, I decided to go on a mission to get it finished in the last few days before I run out of time for such things.  When it was finished I ponced around in it for a while and declared it a thing of beauty, probably the best thing I've ever made, using two balls of crazily luxurious French angora that comes in a box...
 
...and then I promptly felted it to oblivion.  

 

Here's hoping that limp grey dish rags are all the rage for neckwear this coming autumn.  

 

Pah!

 

Comments

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Oh noes :-(

How did the felting happen? did you dare to wash it at a temperature around freezing when it actually needs to be washed at absolute zero?

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Just re-read that and worried it might come across as dismissive of you - it wasn't meant that way at all, just my frustration at gorgeous wools and fabrics that need such finickity awkward cleaning treatments which make them virtually unwearable.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Not at all - you were quite right. I did something stupidly reckless and put it in the hand wash cycle of my washing machine... it's an extremely gentle, low-temp cycle and has never let me down before with fine yarns, including cashmere... but I guess this angora wanted to teach me a lesson.

I'm trying to see if I can salvage it as a scarf, as it is still very very soft - albeit shrunken and not lacey. Might have to see how it looks tomorrow when it's dry...