Red Hat
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:14 am (hats)
I’m new to felting - but some yarn found it’s way to me that demanded to be felted. Here is the before, where I am wearing the hat:
Huge, isn’t it?
Then here is the after, where the daughter is proudly displaying her new head-wear:
It’s totally cute on her. It’s really really thick. I used a front loading washing machine to felt it, and ran it through two wash cycles to get it to this size. If i was to make this same pattern again i wouldn’t make the top of it quite so deep as it is deeper than I like on her head. It’s a tight fit too, which means I should have stopped felting it sooner.
The yarn was a manos something or other - A thick/thin yarn. In several places where the yarn was super thin I did some wierd double stitches to keep it thicker. The final hat has an almost boucle texture. The pattern? Fiber Trends single strand worsted weight rolled brim hat pattern, named something ingenious like "Felted hat #2".
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