FELT HIGH

You felt high today, again. You got a heady feeling of euphoria, a hightened sense of touch, and a little rush of adrenaline from all the agitation. No, you did not just do illegal drugs, you are a felting addict.

There are seven signs of a felting junkie. Does this describe you? Would you like to acheive this high? Read the seven signs to find out.

Sign #1 - You haven't seen your spouse in days. They're still around somewhere, you just can't see anyone through the mounds of RAW WOOL (alpaca or sheeps) you necessarily hoard for experimental felting projects.

Sign #2 - Not a spec of dirt on your hands and you have a monthly expense account for liquid dish soap. Using SOAP AND WARM WATER to felt keeps fingers and palms mighty clean.

Sign #3 - You love creating FRICTION in your home through pushing and rubbing. The agitation is not from animosity but from putting pressure on your raw wool to turn it to felt.

Sign #4 - You own an oldfashioned washboard or two. Were you born in the wrong century and want to wash clothes as they did in the old days? Ha! Fat chance. You own a washboard to abuse felt and practice that process called FULLING to tighten and shrink your project.

Sign #5 - You buy wool items at Goodwill and other thrift stores. Your not poor or cheap. You buy them so you can throw them, on purpose, into your WASHING MACHINE TO FULL knitted wool. (You, also, grab a pair or two of used jeans, not to wear...to provide extra agitation to full wool in your washer.)

Sign #6 - You actually know that NEEDLE FELTING is a dry felting method which allows you to create 3D characters from raw wool.

Sign #7 - Your family rolls their eyes when you excitedly run in and show them your new finished product and they moan, "Not another felt _______ (fill in the blank: HAT, SCARF, SWEATER, VEST, MITTENS, SLIPPERS, SHIRT, BLANKET, RUG...well, you get the idea.)

If you know the steps to felting, know more than one method of felting, own an overabundance of felt creations, and derive lots of perverse pleasure from performing this madness, then you are a felting junkie.

If you would like to experience that felt high, then just follow the seven signs and you can join the felting craze. Be forewarned! There are no felting groups equivalent to Alcoholics Anonymous or half-way houses to help you with your addiction once you take the plunge into this intoxicating world. But, you'll have so much fun joining the rest of us addicts you won't want to be cleansed of this obssession anyway!

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