The Twisted Purl makes felted soaps which make the perfect addition to your Easter Baskets and decorations.
They look like Easter eggs and as always are good clean fun.
We sell our felted soaps both retail and wholesale. Let us know if you have any questions!
Retail available through our website. Wholesale available at thetwistedpurl.faire.com
Also, big announcement coming soon! Stay tuned.
Hey Everyone! This week has gone by soooo quickly, but it has been a full one in the Twisted Purl studio! On Tuesday, I had a pretty simple day in the studio. Cyndi was getting ready for the Raspberry Pi Bake-Off, and was busy programming her creature, so I helped her by making some carded batts. She needed Spring colors, which as you all know is quite difficult for me. I think these are my best happy carded batts so far!
Here is Cyndi working on her Pi. (And probably giving herself a headache.)
I love looking at all of them lined up on the counter.
There are lots of bright pinks and yellows going on in these. They are super bright, which was a lot easier to handle with the weather outside being so beautiful.
This Thursday I finally got to meet Kate! We didn’t have much time to talk because we got straight to work learning how to make felted soaps! Although we both knew the ins and outs of labeling and packaging, and even knew how the soaps were made, we had never made them ourselves. Cyndi is a felted soap pro. She told us about the science experiment that was figuring out how to make the felted soaps the best way possible. After trying many different methods, she discovered the ultimate way to felt soaps. (Which is why hers are the best ever.) She passed her knowledge on to Kate and me, and we were able to practice together. I’m excited to see how the soaps we made turned out. Next week we get to learn how to make some designs on felted soaps! Wow! Here are some of the soaps as we were making them.
The last two yellow ones are my favorite. (One made by Kate and one made by me.) They remind me of little popcorns! Or golden eggs!
Until next week!
Zoe B.
Hey Guys! My week at The Twisted Purl was pretty short due to some more bad weather around these parts. It is supposed to warm up next week. I’m just hoping it will finally turn into Spring like it has in the studio. I went back to my roots at The Twisted Purl by helping with the labeling and packaging of Spring time soaps. All of the colors are so happy, and most of the soaps that was labeled are already on their way to stores around the world. Here are some photos of all of the soaps on the table. Cyndi had arranged some of them into this cute heart shape before I even arrived.
When we were all done labeling, I looked into the bucket we had been depositing the labeled soaps into, and it was overflowing. Cyndi said she wished she could just keep that bucketful for when Christmas hits next year, since she can barely make soaps as fast as people order them around the holidays!
After finishing up with the soaps, Cyndi helped me remember how to knit. Granted, I’ve never been a good knitter. I’ve always had my mom to start and stop for me, and I’ve only ever made very simple scarves with very even and machine made yarn. I had to learn again on the yarn I made myself, which for those of you who read my last post know, the yarn was very uneven and crazy. Some parts of the little splotch I knitted are very nice looking, some are too thick, and some are so thin that they are curling up on themselves. Here is the finished product. I think it looks like a really ugly bow-tie, or maybe even a strand of DNA.
But this little corner of my creation actually looks decent! The yarn here was some of the later stuff I made, so I had gotten a little bit more consistent when it comes to using a drop spindle.
I hope everyone has a good week! I’m going to be hoping for more Spring weather so that next week in the studio will be a very long and full one!
Until then,
Zoe B.
Okay, great! But why would I want to use Felted Soap?
How do I make Felted Soap?
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We have been selling a lot of Felted Soap to many Retail Stores worldwide. Recently, my online source for soaps ran out. Oh no! I had to figure out a place to get my soaps and fast. I knew one place I had to order from in very large quantities, spending a very large amount of cash at a time, and having to wire transfer money to the company for payment. Seriously, in this day and age…who doesn’t take credit cards? I went ahead and put in the large order.
Now, I always think things are going to take longer than they actually do. I guessed it’d be a couple of weeks before I’d see the soapy boxes and figured I had all the time in the world to clean out space in my cluttered garage.
The rumble of the HUGE Big Rig stopping in front of my house this afternoon told me otherwise. Now, today was a felting day (so I was pretty messy) but I made a mad dash for shoes and ran outside to greet a very burly bearded gentleman. I would not have been surprised if he told me he was kin to the Duck Dynasty crew. Huge guy, but a real sweetheart.
He was given the wrong address and of course was expecting a business address, not a residential. Really? Who gets 1,392 bars of soap delivered to their door? Maybe doomsday preparers, Kate plus 8, and just me!
I ran out and squeaked “You have soap for me?”
He replied in a gruff, manly voice “I don’t know what I got but are YOU The Twisted Purl???”
I giggled and said “Yes sir!!!”
Guess he had already called the company and they told him to return the soap. So thankful I had run out right when I did! I explained I didn’t think he was coming for a week or so and apologized for not having the help for him to unload. He said it was just a little pallet, so no biggie.
I watched him hop in the lift of his truck and open it up. In the very back of the huge truck sat my pallet. It definitely looked small compared to the massive inside of his truck and the size of the man unloading. He pushed the pallet up my driveway and set it down next to the garage. I thanked him kindly and he said he was just happy to not have to take it back and still had time for lunch.
Once the pallet was in front of my garage and almost the same size as the front of my Tahoe I knew this wasn’t a “Small Pallet”. I quickly made space in the garage for the pallet and up-wrapped the plastic. Wow! 29 boxes, each weighing about 15 pounds was some heavy lifting. I had to move all the boxes off the pallet, move the pallet into the garage, then move all the boxes back onto the pallet.
Weight training for the day done! My boys arrived home shortly after all the heavy lifting was done. They hopped up on the boxes and demanding photos be taken of them with all the soap.
They are just super lucky the nice delivery man didn’t come an hour later. I’d have put them to work! Before today, the most soaps I had ever ordered at one time was close to 200 bars.
Now the real work begins! Time to start felting 1,392 bars of soap. Whew!