I've been meaning to make this simple pod bag since I bought this book about a year ago. Like my knitting, for me wet felting has only ever extended to simple projects. Over the weekend I was feeling game and ready to part with the last of my favourite coloured, merino, sliver.
I followed the instructions but ended up with a 'frill' of sorts around the outside. This piece of pre-felt was meant to bind with the rest of the pod in the felting process. Turning the pod inside out makes the frill disappear but I've decided I like it and it can stay. I had Zahra's runaway maths counters in mind when making this, I tell you there like marbles, you find them in the oddest places, but then this idea was quickly disposed of in favour of it becoming a rock collecting pod by a certain girl of mine. I did manage to convince this little geologist in the making that perhaps some of the rocks that are lugged home would be too big and weighty for such a fragile thing which might be better suited to something lighter, lets say, um, wool? and needles? Really now, in all honesty it's too small for this, but I like the idea, maybe a bigger one is in the pipeline.
Still wet from the felting process, the pod was whisked outside to hold seeds, leaves and berries from our garden. I can see that this pod will be spending some time in the bush, down in the gardens and in my bike basket, ready to bring home those little treasures we always seem to find.
Happy collecting dear friends
~Cxo~
