One nice thing about having to be in the car is that I can still do some of my handwork...knitting is so portable and I can knit and talk to (listen to...) Bill at the same time! 
To felt, you need 100% wool, knit for 18" or until you have just a bit of yarn to pick up the edge stitches and give it a bottom.......
Throw it is the washer (in a lingerie bag ) with just a bit of detergent and agitate it. This took 3 repeats of the wash cycle to get it small enough and tight enough to be a bowl. (It is different every time you felt and justs adds to the fun. Sometimes it only requires 5-7 minutes of agitation and others, like this yarn, required 30 mins! )
Place the wet bowl on a form to shape it, this is my mixing bowl-I knew there was a reason to have kitchen appliances! Let it dry on its own--hours or even overnight. (Here it is dry in only hours-98 degrees of sunshine does that for you!)
Enjoy your creativity and stop and enjoy your surroundings........we have a whole new crop of these little guys running around. I do mean running around because our hunter, Tom, chases and eats these guys like candy! He knows when we yell to drop one-to swallow in one gulp so he will not lose his prey! Stinker!
Fill the bowl with yarn balls and savor your work of art!
Hey, swallowing with one gulp is better than eating its tail and dropping the still-alive body in the house for you... :)
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