Little domestic disasters

I finished my little pencil case. I crocheted the pieces together with yellow yarn and discovered that it was a tad too small for a pencil case. No problem, I thought I could felt it and use it for my lip balm, mirror, keys and all other small trinkets that I can never find in my Frankenbag. And I had a load of cottons about to be washed.... Can you tell where this is going?



Now, please remember that I dyed this wool with Kool-aid, and at the time of dyeing I had it all tied with cotton yarn which was soaked and zapped at the same time and never caught the color. Therefore, I thought this experiment was perfectly safe for my cottons.



As you might have guessed, it wasn't. If the kool-aid had been taken up by the towels, the underwear or the t-shirts, it would not have been a disaster. But the two items that were stained happened to be two of my husband's newest khakis. Well, they actually are like a year old, but that's new by his standards. I covered the stains with Shout, threw my shame into the hot wash cycle and confessed my sins. He's a sweet guy, he forgave me immediately.



Luckily, the Shout and the hot wash did the job and his trousers are no longer stained. Whew!



And the pencil case? Sadly, not very felted. But I got inspiration from Missy and did some sink felting with rubber gloves, alternating hot and cold water, until I got the result I wanted. I will show some pictures as soon as I can. I'm afraid that the sink is as far as I'll dare to go for a while when it comes to felting.