tears of a clown

hey, madeline. some circus clown called. she wants her handbag back.

today being laundry day yet again, i found my forgotten felting projects at the bottom of my laundry baskets. i didn't really give it too much thought, knowing by now not to get my hopes up.

wait, do you even remember that far back? well, if not, in my felting queue are two madeline bags. (the booga bag i've put aside for now.) one of the madeline's is made of noro kureyon. the other madeline is of cascade 220. the bags were done with the same pattern, same needles, same number of felt cycles. i did make the kureyon's handle longer, but the bag part should still be the same size. check out the difference.


thus reinforcing my ever-growing disappointment in kureyon. the thing looks like a color-blind circus clown's makeup bag after it's been through the dryer.

but look at the madeline out of cascade! if i may say so, i think it turned out to be sooooooo cute! (i say it that way, with tons of "o's" and an exclamation point, because it is pink.)

i feel a bit sheepish admitting that it took three tries for me to finally get madeline down right. the trick was, evidently, to use the kind of yarn suggested. (although kureyon was mentioned in the instructions as an alternative, just so ya know.) but this time that i did it right, i nailed it. may i direct your attention to the cream-colored edging i added on my own. i knit this bag in the round and did the pseudo-edging as impromptu intarsia, knowing that it would probably felt differently because it is so close to white. for that white-trimmed look that was so popular-- last fall. oh, well.

in any case, it's done. my first successful felting project is done, and i'm pleased with how it turned out.

now what to do with my booga and madeline mishaps of the kureyon kind?