Felt Nonfelt Bag

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  Step 1

  Here is my "before" wool sweater. Not felted yet.

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  Step 2

  The first step was to cut off a part of the sweater that was not going to be felted. This was a first for me to not felt a whole sweater as I have only done projects that were either all felted or all non felted.

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  Step 3

  After one washing of the top part you can see how much it shrank. But I wanted it a bit more sturdy so back for another wash and dry.

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  Step 4

  And here are the two parts, the felted one even smaller and thicker.

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  Step 5

  Now I took the non felted parts at the side seams.

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  Step 6

  I then cut the felted section to make the body of the bag.

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  Step 7

  I then sewed the non felted sections to the felted body section of the bag.

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  Step 8

  I then sewed up the bag along the bottom edge. To gather the ends I used a matching ribbon on a large needle and went in and out along the ribbed ends.

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  Step 9

  And here you have it:

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