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No. Needlefelting is done with roving and you punch it into felt either as 2D or you work it in a 3d object. And there's wet needlefelting.
Here's some 3D needlefelted items - [link]
Needlepunch is kind more like a needlepoint, you use a punch tool to make loops through the material and it creates this kind of effect [link]
So needlepunching is basically rug-hooking? My mom did this in the 70's, and I did learn to do it as a kid. It was pretty fun! She actually did hooked stair tread rugs from drawings that each person in my family did, and then never put them on the stairs!
My project is at standstill. I'm untangling yarn. I pulled from the center and there were two huge globs of yarn vomit. Katy (the owner of the yarn shop) worked for an hour and a half trying to untangle it. I've worked on it for about 2 hours. It's still not done.
It would have been faster to unravel the project and start over at the other end ....but the yarn isn't cheap and it shouldn't be like this. I just sent an email to the company letting them know this was a first purchase and very disappointing.
Yeah, that's why I never pull from the center.
I have also given up pulling from the center. Anyone as tangleriffic as I am is only asking for trouble by doing that.
I wish what I had done was asked if Katy would have wound it on her ball winder to end up with a cake.
I worked on it some more but at the core is a knot that I think is felted together.
I started to pull from the outside and then changed because everyone I see knitting always pulls from the center.
Have you guys seen the Couture Hats knitting book? (I'm guessing that you knit and then felt the hats.)
A lot of those don't look felted in the picture. I might need to put that book on my wishlist.
So I heard back from the yarn company. They are going to authorize a replacement skein, and asked if I was willing to send mine to them so the mill could figure out what happened. And they are giving me one of their pattern books as a free gift for helping them figure out the problem.
I'm floored. And their response has now changed my mind and I'll be buying yarn from them in the future.
My grandma always taught me to unwind the entire thing and make a ball. Which is what I always do but I'm always anxious to get started knitting when that happens.
eta: and I just discovered there is a really cool yarn shop right across the street and down the block from my office. I was looking at $90 balls of yarn yesterday, but SO PRETTY!