Felting a hat starts with crocheting the hat larger than your head, but not like this! This could fit an elephant. It did not felt enough to fit my head. Apparently my front loading washing machine did not agitate the wool enough. My guess is that too many stitches went into this, ie not paying attention to the intstructions, or the gauge.
My friend had a felted hat that was just like mine, only it fit me! She gave it to me because she felt so bad about my over-sized hat. First the hat was cut, then the two edges were overlapped to fit my head.
A piece of felted hat was removed after the hat was fit to my head. The extra piece will be made into a wrist cuff.
Felt does not unravel if you cut it, and it is easy to sew. The two edges were sewn to together from the inside, then whipstitched together on the outside to pull the two edges together. You can barely notice the seem now.
Here it is. It is still larger than I would like, but it has a sort of "Annie Hall " feel to it. And of course is the the warmest hat I own. I don't think I will make another one.
Felting a hat starts with crocheting the hat larger than your head, but not like this! This could fit an elephant. It did not felt enough to fit my head. Apparently my front loading washing machine did not agitate the wool enough. My guess is that too many stitches went into this, ie not paying attention to the intstructions, or the gauge.
My friend had a felted hat that was just like mine, only it fit me! She gave it to me because she felt so bad about my over-sized hat. First the hat was cut, then the two edges were overlapped to fit my head.
A piece of felted hat was removed after the hat was fit to my head. The extra piece will be made into a wrist cuff.
Felt does not unravel if you cut it, and it is easy to sew. The two edges were sewn to together from the inside, then whipstitched together on the outside to pull the two edges together. You can barely notice the seem now.
Here it is. It is still larger than I would like, but it has a sort of "Annie Hall " feel to it. And of course is the the warmest hat I own. I don't think I will make another one.
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