The only experience I've had with felting is felting knitted slippers in my old top loader washer. My sister in law knitted the slippers, I just felted them. So, after she gave me a bunch of wool. I wanted to try a quick and easy project so I crocheted up a bunch of circles to make into coasters. I started with a ring of four single crochets into which I put 10 double crochets, the first one being the ch 3 that starts a round. I want to work up a decent pattern sometime. The holes were not a success, and I need a better way to make the circle flat.
I didn't know how well a front loader washer would felt wool, so I googled it and found this website, and gave it a go.
Here are the results. The original circles were about 7" across and the finished coasters about 4".
This was a fun project. Most of them turned out well. A couple of my circles weren't flat enough so they didn't turn out at all.
