These felt pouches kicked off after I found a vintage Amana Weavers wool blanket at my favorite thrift shop, Artifacts in Iowa City, Iowa. From there, I got a coffee, then walked across the parking lot to the laundromat and washed the hell out of that blanket until it became densely felted. It seemed like a good idea to make that material into pouches, but the wool is so thick it is hard to sew. So naturally when I’d used up that original blanket, I had to track down some more of them and keep making pouches and jamming up my machine with lint. Because some people just won’t learn. These are thick and sturdy, unlined felted wool pouches with imperfect, un-beautiful stitching.

The particular blanket these pouches were made from was not Amana Weavers, but now I can’t recall who did make it. What I do know is that it’s ridiculously thick! Like fill it up with balled-up $1 bills and you will have a plush pillow, that thick.

These larger pouches measure around 11.5” by about 7.5”. They have cocoa colored zippers with dark purple suede leather zipper pulls.

Group shot is for comparison, you are purchasing one of the larger pouches.