Thursday, April 9, 2009

Soap in a Sweater

Joe's birthday was this week and one of the things I made him was a soap in a sweater.  I found the very easy-to-follow directions here.  So now the soap has its own built-in wash cloth.  :-)

Step 1: Card Misc. Scrap Wool to make a mini batt



Step 2: Tear off end and overlap to make a large place for wrapping up the soap

Step 3: Wrap the soap in the mini batt

Step 4: Wrap batt-wrapped-soap with a loosely knit mesh netting with attached single crochet rope for hanging


Step 5: Wet and rub the soap to felt it by hand until it looks about like this:


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9 comments:

  1. Well, I love how you made the new batt from leftovers. This shows exactly how new at this I am. I would try to spin that!

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  2. you are a knitting fiend! this blog is very devoted to yarn and other crafty things.

    i guess i just have to say...

    mamas, don't let your baaabies grow up to be knitters...um, la la la la la (don't know the rest of the words to the song)....

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  3. That's a lot better than your average soap-on-a-rope.

    Love it!

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  4. Hi! You don't know me but..... I just had an "oh wow" moment!! The other day I googled recipes for low point cupcakes and your recipe from a few years ago came up. (I made them and they are delicious by the way!) So I started checking out your blog and noticed that you follow my sister-in-law's blog "The Leaking Window". What a small world!!! Of all the recipes I could have looked at!! :)

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  5. Tamra...

    Indeed! Even smaller still since I am real life friends with Sheri and used to be a children's church leader for the the wee one (well, not so wee anymore....he's getting big).

    And even more funny...since I lived in Boston when I wrote that recipe and Portland was not even a twinkle in my eye yet. So you didn't just pick a recipe of one of Sheri's friends, but you picked a recipe of a random seminary student who would one day become friends with your sister in law.

    Crazy.

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  6. Wow! I sent Sheri a message last night on FaceBook and told her how I found you as well. You're right, it's even crazier to think that the post I saw was from before you even knew her.
    I'm slowly getting sucked into this blog world and this little "run-in" was just the icing on the cake! :)

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  7. I was totally wondering if you could use a doggie brush to make "roving"... and now I see you can. Felting soap is fun...

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  9. now this is a cool idea for the old soap on a rope gift for dad's!

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Soap in a Sweater

Joe's birthday was this week and one of the things I made him was a soap in a sweater.  I found the very easy-to-follow directions here.  So now the soap has its own built-in wash cloth.  :-)

Step 1: Card Misc. Scrap Wool to make a mini batt



Step 2: Tear off end and overlap to make a large place for wrapping up the soap

Step 3: Wrap the soap in the mini batt

Step 4: Wrap batt-wrapped-soap with a loosely knit mesh netting with attached single crochet rope for hanging


Step 5: Wet and rub the soap to felt it by hand until it looks about like this:


I'm sharing this with:
Visit thecsiproject.com Photobucket

9 comments:

  1. Well, I love how you made the new batt from leftovers. This shows exactly how new at this I am. I would try to spin that!

    ReplyDelete
  2. you are a knitting fiend! this blog is very devoted to yarn and other crafty things.

    i guess i just have to say...

    mamas, don't let your baaabies grow up to be knitters...um, la la la la la (don't know the rest of the words to the song)....

    ReplyDelete
  3. That's a lot better than your average soap-on-a-rope.

    Love it!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hi! You don't know me but..... I just had an "oh wow" moment!! The other day I googled recipes for low point cupcakes and your recipe from a few years ago came up. (I made them and they are delicious by the way!) So I started checking out your blog and noticed that you follow my sister-in-law's blog "The Leaking Window". What a small world!!! Of all the recipes I could have looked at!! :)

    ReplyDelete
  5. Tamra...

    Indeed! Even smaller still since I am real life friends with Sheri and used to be a children's church leader for the the wee one (well, not so wee anymore....he's getting big).

    And even more funny...since I lived in Boston when I wrote that recipe and Portland was not even a twinkle in my eye yet. So you didn't just pick a recipe of one of Sheri's friends, but you picked a recipe of a random seminary student who would one day become friends with your sister in law.

    Crazy.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Wow! I sent Sheri a message last night on FaceBook and told her how I found you as well. You're right, it's even crazier to think that the post I saw was from before you even knew her.
    I'm slowly getting sucked into this blog world and this little "run-in" was just the icing on the cake! :)

    ReplyDelete
  7. I was totally wondering if you could use a doggie brush to make "roving"... and now I see you can. Felting soap is fun...

    ReplyDelete
  8. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

    ReplyDelete
  9. now this is a cool idea for the old soap on a rope gift for dad's!

    ReplyDelete

Comments make me happy! Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.

 
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