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Posted: Dec 20 2006 at 7:04am | IP Logged Quote J.Anne
Could someone discuss the difference between wool felt for crafting and the inexpensive kind available at the craft store? The wool is so much more expensive. Is it worth the extra $$ as far as durability and use?

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Posted: Dec 20 2006 at 10:24am | IP Logged Quote Dawn
Jennifer, I have wondered the same thing myself. I must say I the wool felt I have from Magic Cabin. The colors are so natural and beautiful and the texture is completely different from craft store felt. It cuts very cleanly and feels wonderful to the touch. It is, as you said, however, expensive. I do get the craft store felt too - it depends on the project.

I fear I have not answered your question though - I am not sure how it compares as far as durability/use, though I would suspect it lasts/wears much better.

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The inexpensive stuff at the craft stores is some sort of poly. You are right in that the wool will last longer and be more durable but of course it's wool so watch out for moths.

I love wool. I love how it feels, knitting with it etc. I prefer my wool to have a "sheep" smell to it. I'm sure I look pretty comical when I am buying yarn and I am picking up all the wool skeins and smelling them. But that's the wool that makes your hands soft when you use it (it's the lanolin). Of course that's assuming you aren't allergic - which I am not.

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Posted: Dec 20 2006 at 12:01pm | IP Logged Quote lilac hill
MicheleQ wrote:

I love wool. I love how it feels, knitting with it etc. I prefer my wool to have a "sheep" smell to it. I'm sure I look pretty comical when I am buying yarn and I am picking up all the wool skeins and smelling them. But that's the wool that makes your hands soft when you use it (it's the lanolin). Of course that's assuming you aren't allergic - which I am not.


Any time you want to get the wool smell, take a road trip and you can experience it on the hoof. If I have enough warning from the shearer , I will let you know when the shearing is, and you come up.
Next shearing (probably late spring) I will save you some, relatively clean stuff for that theraputic lanolin.
Last year during softball season I gave one of DD#3's teammate's father, a dairy farmer, a fleece. His wife told me that in the past a sheep was kept with the cow herd for the benefits derived from running chapped hands through the wool. The poor farmer probably thought I was a bit odd, but hey, I love wool too. My DH likes to remind me that I could get that wool feeling and smell without having a flock of wool brained sheep. For me , now (since they are older the brown is more bleached and grey and the white is a bit coarser) it is more about having a grazing animal for management of our fields to rotate with the goats, brousers.
I do love watching them too. We go to the barn at midnight or after Midnight mass to give them extra feed in thanks for sharing their stable on the first Christmas.

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