Unfinished Friday

So, I did find the blue wool that I needed for M’s felted hat. I knew I had some. And I knit the hat easily enough. Actually, I knit it so easily I knit it twice. The first time, I used the suggested needle size—#8, but it came out huuuuuge. And I ran out of yarn.

I don’t know if there is a law of diminishing returns on felting. I would assume there would come a point where a piece couldn’t be felted any more than it already was. So, I didn’t want to chance trying to make this thing fit by felting.

Plus, I ran out of yarn.

So I started it again, using #6s. That’s how I would normally make gauge anyway—go down two sizes from the recommended. (Although, I have always heard that gauge is not a big thing when you are felting. Guess I destroyed that myth. Ha!) Anyway, it came out huuuuuge. And I ran out of yarn.

Sigh. So, I am going to try and find more of this yarn. It doesn’t make sense that I would have only bought one skein. There must be another one around here someplace—hidden by fun fur, obscured by UFOs…


Plan B is, buy 2 skeins of the same dye lot and reknit the hat using that yarn. Then this thing becomes the matching bag.

I am not pulling this out again.