The Sad Fate of the Woodins

The moral of the story is, read the directions:

So the woodins felted happily–just a bit tighter, but stitches still intact. But their home fizzled on me. At first i thought it was because I overfelted–and I am a bit sad, after all the work I did making a tree-bark pattern in purls, that most of the texture is felted away. But the real problem, the tree-trunk turned completely flat (this tree is so flimsy you could wear it as a sweater), was a pre-felting mistake.

When the pattern says stuff, stuff. The tree was standing up okay on its own, and the 6 pages printed up from Knitty were shuffled all over the house, and I thought I knew what needed to be done to finish it off, and I just didn’t read the part about stuffing the tree. Now it’s sewn, and felted together, and i’m a bit unsure what needs to be done to fix it. The first step will be to try to cut open the edge and get some stuffing in… but i’m a bit worried that the outer and inner layers have felted together. hmmm.

Will keep you posted. Until then, the poor woodins are homeless.