I Felt Like It - Green Cabled Sweater Version

I bought this sweater a while back at Goodwill. It was only a dollar and it's 100% wool. Nice green color, too. I'd thought to frog it out and knit with the yarn. But I just really liked the cables on the front.

So I threw it in the washer on hot to felt it up. (Not feel it up. That's something else.)

First, let me say that if you ever try felting, get yourself a good lingerie bag to do it in. Not the piece of crap bag I had. That bag came open midway through the wash and left about half a sweater's worth of fuzz on the inside of my washer.

Anyway, this felted perfectly. You can see the stitches still, and the cables are beautiful. But this sweater is about half the size it was before the wash. (Except in the arms, which are still the same length, but half as wide...WTF?)

Gonna let this dry. And pick off all the random fuzz. And then it will be time to practice my sewing skills. I'm thinking... purse, mittens, and ...?