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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Phat Fiber

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I was approached back in December about being a part of something called the Phat Fiber Box. It's a box of sample sized fiber arts goodies (with the occaisional tea and balm) from a variety of independant fiber artists. It's a great opportunity to send samples of my stuff to people who are paying to get them. It's a great opportunity for customers to see and feel a yarn before buying online.

A couple nights ago, my very patient husband stayed up way too late with me wrapping sample skeins of Buttercream yarn and braiding samples of Crumb, a new superwash colonial wool top so we could get them in the mail. Want to see?

What's that? Closer in you say?

Here's the Crumb: (or one color of it, anyway.  I sent some blue, too, but the pics aren't so good)


Here's the Buttercream mini skeins in McIntosh Apple and Strawberry Milkshake:

So, if you haven't yet, get thee hence to www.phatfiber.com. The theme for February's box is "Romance and Chocolate."  I'm excited to be in the box this month as well as excited to see what I get!  There's been talk about having delicious chocolately snacks in the boxes.  Come on, chocolate and yarn?  Does it get better?  (okay...you're right.  It would be better if cupcakes were involved somehow....but maybe another month?)

If you're maybe even just interested in getting a box, make sure you get on the e-mail list on the phat fiber site. The boxes go up for sale at a secret time and the e-mail list is notified of when it is. Last month, the boxes all sold out in 20 minutes! So unless you have extraordinary luck, you're going to need to be on the e-mail list in order to snag one.

In the meantime, you can preview goodies and reviews of the samples that are being sent in and enter giveways on the Phat Fiber blog.