First Felting's

I did it!!! I felted and dyed my first project. Its a hat and its black cherry pink. I don't think it

turned out to bad for the first time and my daughter loves it and I will most definatly do it again sometime soon. I think this time it will be a crocheted or knitted bag or tote. Here's the hat let me know what you think, if in fact anyone ever reads the rantings of a mississippi hooker. I really enjoyed working with the dying and felting process I can see why this could be so addicting. My kids couldn't believe that Kool-Aid actually dyed this hat. My daughter asked me if I had tasted it to see if it tasted good, grossss!! She is a bit on the blond side (she really was blonde and dingy to boot, but I still love her). I used the Lion Brand Fisherman's Yarn. I was warned that the yarn was going to smell
stinky sheep butt when it got wet, I didn't think it was going to be all that bad but, in the words of my 3 year old neighbor, HOLY MOLEY!!! It Smelled to high heaven, if that's what sheep butt smells like we will not be raising sheep anytime soon. After it finished dying I took it to the sink to rinse out before putting it into the washer with jeans, I could see it now my sons and husbands jeans turning pink. Boy, would I be the one getting felted!! Anyway, I rinsed it out in the sink over a mesh drainer. When it was finished the mesh drainer was full of lanolin and you could smell it all over the kitchen. YUK!!! Truthfully, it wasn't all that bad and I would use it again I didn't gag or anything and nothing keeled over dead in the house. So, really its a big exaggeration.
Ok I did learn one big lesson, any item you intend to felt must be made twice the size because, duh, wool shrinks. I'm sure I knew that from somewhere. Oh and by the way, the reason it looks like a bowl in the picture is because I was drying it on top of my grandmothers bowl. The hat no longer looks like a bowl.

Everyone have a great yarn of a day,
The Mississippi Hooker

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