Honey, I shrunk the sweater

I found this 70% merino wool, 30% cashmere sweater, designed in France, made in Italy for $1 at Salvation Army. Yep, ONE dollar. Talk about score! It's a soft baby blue with a lovely cable design.



So what do I do? Immediately put it through the wash on the hardest, hottest cycle I can about 4 times. This is what happened to it.



Why would I do something like that? Firstly it has a gapping hole in the underarm and secondly, I'm not a baby blue sweater kind of person. Fortunatly, I found from reading at craftster that's it's a legitimate process called felting which binds the fibers together and makes them stronger, along with strinking it. My plan is to cut it up and make a purse out of it. Wish me luck! Worse case, it's a relly cheap experiment.

This is the mu-mu I got for 85 cents I'm going to use for lining fabric. Make it a little more funky to off-set the baby-blueness. Noah picked it out due to the "fishy" print.