Take a deep, cleansing breath...

I've finally been invited to join Ravelry and I am pumped. I would be more excited about having my stash and projects organized so neatly if I could figure out the whole "adding photos" thing, but I'm sure its my problem, not flickr's!
So, if I can figure this out, I will be putting up pictures from my friend and I's first attempt at felting. (How's my grammar?) Jackie made the Fat Bottom Bag from Stitch N Bitch The Happy Hooker using Patons SWS, and although it was beautiful before felting, (sorry no pics pre-felt), it was a little floppy and needed lining to be functional. So we decided to try felting.
It was an experiment of dual proportion:
1. Neither of us had felted anything before
2. Patons SWS is a blend of wool and soy
Needless to say, we were nervous, since everything we've read about felting led us to believe there was a possibility of unevenness or failure with a blended yarn, not to mention the possibility of over felting it since we were both virgins! The fact that one of Patons pattern books specifically for the SWS yarn had a pattern for a felted bag eased our minds... a little. I mean really, who wants to risk destroying an already perfect FO? So in it went, handles and all! (J deemed them too much of a pain to take off, since they are worked in to the last few rows of crochet and she would've had to re-do a couple of inches)
Now let me tell you a little something about myself. I hate laundry. It is one of the banes of my existence, for the simple reason that it is never really done. Made more tedious as I get older, (more line/lay flat drying due to actually following the mfr instructions), it doesn't help that for the life of me, I can't keep track of it unless I carry the kitchen timer around with me all day. 3 loads will take me at least a day and a half, and a load will inevitably be left in the washer or dryer until I realize I can't find my favorite jeans or that all of my panties are missing. I have secretly accused friends and family members of borrowing - and not returning! - the sweater that has been drying in the basement for a month.
Knowing this about myself, I figured that if anyone has the ability to over-felt, it's totally me. Even with Jackie in the house with me - someone who knows my attention span and definitely had more to lose from this going wrong - we managed to get distracted by another experiment and lost track of time.
To our surprise and delight, it came out looking super! Okay, maybe we could've taken it out earlier, but at least it wasn't a wallet!

Way more functional this way - now nothing will poke through or snag those precious stitches!

Okay, still need to work on picture placement. I'm honestly just relieved they are on the page at all.

Remember that cleansing breath?
We have made it through the first post and added pictures - You may exhale.