I completed the knitting of the hat to be felted (like the lavender one of a couple posts back). This is 100% alpaca yarn, 2 strands of sport weight knit together.
Before felting!
Here it is next to the wool prototype! As you can see, there is a lot of shrinking to be done during the felting process. But I like to have a few things to felt when I fire up the hot water bath in the wash machine, so it may be awhile before I felt this. I knit this one with yarn right off the cones. Why? Because now I can weigh the hat and I’ll know about how much yarn to skein up and dye to make future hats. As for this one, I can’t decide if I should leave it white, dye it before felting or dye it after felting. What do you think?
leave it white and put a bright knitted/crocheted flower on it! ;o)
I like that idea! Would have to be knit or maybe felted, since I don’t crochet! Thanks.