handmade home :: hat!

one of the projects i was most excited to try my hand at in Soulemama's Handmade Home was the sweater hats.

i started experimenting a bit (just a wee bit) with felting old wool sweaters last winter and making hats was definitely of interest, but it always seemed complicated to me somehow. how could i make a hat that would actually FIT? and not look all wonky t'boot?

then i got my copy of Handmade Home and thought, "it's time to give it a try!" as i started to look at the instructions, i got all the way to step 2 before getting confused! ah well. thankfully, amanda started a group on Flickr where we can all upload pictures of our creations. so, i asked some questions in the forum and was lucky enough to get help right from amanda herself. so, yay! now step 2 made more sense. and i completed a hat.

and it's TOO SMALL! boo.

i'm not deterred, though. i shall try again and until then i'll pass along this first one to a friend whose little girl could use it.

onward! there must be more sweaters lying around i can felt. . .

POP! right off her head....