Oh felting, how I've missed you so....

Christmas of 07, I felted some Christmas gifts in our old, top loading washing machine, and then, one wash load later, it died..... so, we bought some of those fancy new, HE washing machines, and I was afraid that I couldn't felt anymore. So I haven't felted anything in almost TWO YEARS!! My M.I.L brought me some undyed sheep roving from their sheep, and so I got in a felting mood... I knit one of these slippers, and I'm waiting to see if this fancy new machine can do the job. *crossing fingers* before I knit it's friend.