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TIB proposed the self cleaning lint system for your tumble dryer. But why waste it when you could use it for ...
DIY Fuzzy Felt.
[For those too young to remember, or those too far away from the UK to be exposed to such things, Fuzzy Felt was a felt based childrens toy. The little pieces of
felt were shaped into trees, sun, sheds, houses and people. By laying them onto the felt background, you could make a heart-warmingly lovely felty picture.]
Remove the lint from the dryer carefully and cut the sheet into shapes as described above. Use another complete sheet as a background. Use the shapes and background to make a picture of your garden and post this to the internet somewhere where we halfbakers can admire your hardwork.
Only available in the predominant colour of your drying.
some inspiration - but don't waste it!
http://www.halfbake...r_20clothes_20dryer
[jonthegeologist, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Fuzzy Felt
http://www.fuzzyfelt.com
...ahh...takes me back to my childhood. [jonthegeologist, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Felt Clothing
http://www.halfbake...Clothing_20Paradigm
by [sartep] [k_sra, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Dust Recycling
http://www.halfbake...ea/Dust_20Recycling
making felt from lint was discussed here (in the annotations) [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Baked in theory, believe it or not, by some arty character in a book I once read who makes collages out of tumble dryer fluff. She calls them "lintscapes". Apparently if you dry you clothes using a colour coded system you can get any colour you want, |
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It's always blue in our house. |
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Fight the monochrome, [hazel]. |
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And to think, I was going to make a quilt from all the lint in the trap ... |
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[lbf] a felty picture of your garden is what we all need. |
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A faulty picture of my garden? |
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I thought this would be the application of fuzzy felt in designing DIY jobs. Like where all the new kitchen units would be installed.
I do like this though. (+) |
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With a selection of 3D lint filters, one could tumble-dry ten loads and then peel off a mitten or a hat. |
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<*lighning bold eminates from cap> |
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My lint isn't really dense enough for this. Perhaps market a quick drying glue spray - just spray, wait a minute, and iron flat. |
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(just back from a few tests) |
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get some eggwhite, add equal water and mix. Add lint. Pat flat onto some kitchen paper until its the right thickness for your art. Microwave for 1 minute. The eggwhite cooks and holds the lint into a flat, cutable, piece of felt. |
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More like flat, cutable, piece of felt that will become germ-infested wads of gross after a week or two in the hands of chilren. Any non egg-based ideas? |
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I think the colours will be problematical |
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[worldgineer] spray glue would do it I think. Simple sugar solution would do the job too I think. |
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[po] I'm realiably informed that if you sort your washing/drying into strict colours and not just whites and colours, then you'll get a nice pretty palette of colours to play with... assuming that you have a pretty palette of coloured clothes of course. |
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if you wanted say red felt, then you would only be able to dry red clothes for a week or so. |
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I wear a lot of black and white. |
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[po] lil red riding hood is sorted for red, but struggling for black. Maybe you could do a deal? |
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Or use a bit of red dye on the white lint (no, not on the white load of laundry unless you'd like a fashion change). |
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when I was a kid I used to make blankets for my Barbies out of dryer lint. |
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