Fuzzy fun
Project ingredients:
One book (on loan from Monica)
Circular needle
Pencils, sharpened at both ends to substitute for DPNs (strangely effective)
Fuzzy wuzzy wool, which makes me think of a favourite childhood poem of mine...
- Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear
- Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair
- Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?
I made a little felted bowl, which just makes me happy.
But it has already been colonized.
So it's a good thing I've made two more. Even if felting them in my machine makes the utility room smell of rank sheep. But that seems a small price to pay. I have visions of a whole rainbow family.
Woe betide anyone who fills them with potatoes for chitting though.
I have that book ... but am ashamed to say I have not yet used it. But I do know the fuzzy wuzzy poem and have another that always went with it when I was a child
Izzy Bizzy is a Bee
Izzy Bizzy sleeps till three
Izzy Bizzy isn't busy ..is he?
Posted by: gillie | 09 June 2008 at 22:44
I promise no potatoes. I can't, however, say there won't be any drool splashed on a bowl or too while I'm admiring them.
Posted by: Megan | 09 June 2008 at 23:08
I loved that poem as a child - it reminds me of another of my favourites (a little more gruesome)
Fatty and skinny went to bed, fatty rolled over and skinny was dead....
that one made me laugh as a child!
Love the felted bowl!
Posted by: Di | 09 June 2008 at 23:56
what a great felted bowl. i love the two-tone effect. i have wanted to make some, but haven't for some reason...
Posted by: marrtha | 10 June 2008 at 00:46
I have what may seem a silly question. Can you felt in an ordinary washing machine? All the instructions I've seen for felting seem to involve top loaders and looking at it occasionally. Which obviously with a front loader you can't do. It is that question that has put me off books like one skein because a lot of the items do seem to be felted and I soooo want to have a go!
Posted by: Gemma | 10 June 2008 at 08:48
My grandad used to say that little poem to us, along with one about a peanut on a railway track and peanut butter...
Posted by: tracey petersen | 10 June 2008 at 09:10
I love your little bowl and great to see it being put to such good use!
I remember Fuzzy Wuzzy!...and of course now a whole load of childhood rhymes are popping into my head!
xxx
Posted by: Lesley | 10 June 2008 at 09:20
Those felt bowls are one of my all-time favourite things to make.
Posted by: Dragonfly | 10 June 2008 at 09:36
Brilliant felt bowl and I loved the poem. Not sure how I got to be as old as I am with so many children and haven't heard it before... maybe I have but have just forgotten!
Posted by: Gina | 10 June 2008 at 10:05
I thought Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman?!
(line from the film "See No Evil, Hear No Evil"!)
Posted by: Ruth | 10 June 2008 at 10:07
I love the felted bowl, I really must find time to do some felting projects, just add it to that extremely long list!
Posted by: Thimbleina | 10 June 2008 at 11:34
your bowl looks great! my friend suzanne made those for our craft swap - i love mine so much!
Posted by: erin | 10 June 2008 at 12:45
i adore your felted bowl, projects like that make me want to learn how to knit properly again!
Posted by: lucykate crafts... | 10 June 2008 at 13:15
Lovely.I can't wait to seee them all together.
Posted by: Kristy | 10 June 2008 at 14:59
I love those bowls, just seeing yours has made me want to make one or two. The wool does pong doesn't it, when it's wet!?
Posted by: Marianne | 10 June 2008 at 15:10
Your new bowl is adorable and I agree that chitlins are not the thing to put in it--but it made me laugh at the thought. I have the book and haven't done anything with it yet. I'm saving it for autumn--why, I just don't know. But now I'm rethinking that plan based on your wonderful creation.
Posted by: June | 10 June 2008 at 15:36
it's a slippery slope... first blogging... then knitting... now felting...
whatever next? 'chitting' perhaps?
(what is that? strange English custom or a pure 'hudsonism'?)
Gorgeous bowl.
Posted by: monica | 10 June 2008 at 16:05
So pretty!
I have a felting class Saturday. Maybe I could make a little bowl like that :)
Posted by: Claudia | 10 June 2008 at 18:50
I loved Fuzzy Wuzzy when I was little too! Love the bowl -- what a great idea for wool scraps!
Posted by: Thimbleanna | 10 June 2008 at 20:13
Gorgeous bowls, so cute!
Posted by: Diana | 10 June 2008 at 21:27
'Fuzzy Wuzzy' was my favorite poem growing up! I have this same book and somehow haven't managed a single project yet. But I absolutely love your bowl and am now feeling very inspired!
Posted by: kristina | 10 June 2008 at 22:36
I love that bowl. I can't knit... maybe grandma...
Posted by: Liz | 10 June 2008 at 23:41
LOL - I remember that poem! What a blast from the past!
Posted by: lazylol | 11 June 2008 at 07:00
Wow! That's such a beautiful bowl - I'm going to have to learn to knit!
Posted by: Sharon | 11 June 2008 at 09:00
It's rather appropriate that your bowl has been colonised by the fuzz! It's beautiful by the way. Those two shades work perfectly together - definitely worth the smell of boiled sheep!
Posted by: julie | 11 June 2008 at 09:31
I am mired in exam marking and so (naturally) having a blog catch-up. I do enjoy your blog (though have still to read most of the back numbers). I do so agree (several posts ago that blog reading is so good for the incurably nosey. I tend to come home from journeys having found out the life histories of my fellow passengers and the cab driver. Such fun. Possibly because my life is somewhat eventless (though I like it that way really).
Back to the scripts! Happy felting.
Posted by: Isabelle | 11 June 2008 at 10:34
Absolutely beautiful felted bowl. Well worth the stench of sheep! :-D x
Posted by: Kitty | 11 June 2008 at 13:57
Yes! Fuzzy Wuzzy!
I love the colours of the bowls, an dthe fact you're prepared to live with the smell to make two more.
Long tall ones would look good with pencils in, wouldn't they?
Posted by: Angel Jem | 11 June 2008 at 14:18
I must give the bowl pattern a whirl. I have the One Skein book and made the stripey bag. Unfortunately it came out a little long but now is a wonderful hotwater bottle cover. I love felted knitting - a very satisfying process (except for the wet sheep smell!).
Posted by: Carolyn | 12 June 2008 at 08:45
Great bowl! Glad the busy bodies have found a home too! (is it just me that calls them busy bodies? I have noticed it's just playmobil these days. Am I showing my age lol?)
Posted by: Helen | 13 June 2008 at 22:04