While I'm thinking about the current figure, I'm realizing that the woven and knitted skirt I plan can just as well be felted and knitted. Or possibly woven and felted and knitted. I can decide as I go.
This is how, borrowing massively from Sarah Swett and her Sarah dippity skirt, shown here in progress.
Straight panels, she wove these, with knitted alternating wedges for shaping and drape. This is where I'm thinking about brioche stitch, a nice rib. Possibly.
So I'm looking at this roving for felting a test panel
Various ideas there on paper. At first I was thinking two main panels, two sides knitted wedges. But when I took a look at Sarah's idea, I liked four panels better.
So here's the panel template, 9×21.5", need to felt four of these. Or weave a couple. The knitted sections I'll attend to later. I plan on making a paper template for them, too, to knit to shape.
It will be a button closing, so I think Dorset buttons might be good, and it's a while since I made any.
Here's my highly technical felting gear
largely from my recycling, with the endlessly handy dowel which rolls out items to crush them, unjams the disposall, and now will be handy to roll roving into felt.
I've seen some very posh setups on YouTube, studios, special tools, specially invented technical terms. But it's really a pretty simple procedure, mainly needing endless rolling to get the fibers working together.
Tomorrow is my Covid booster, after which I might possibly not be up to rolling for a couple of days, we'll see. Despite the recent biopsy, I think I'll go ahead with it, since if I need work done, better have the complete set of vaxxes ahead of maybe being in a same day surgery place.
