And yarn. I'm plying the singles I spun up last year at the Redmond Market - around making a few more hats. I had some leftover hearts from a scarf I made a while ago and they worked perfectly as prefelts. This is a bit on the small side, but I think it's cute.
I've got the pictures of the start of this when it looked like a big, green, fuzzy blob, wrapped in the nylons and this is what it looked like as soon as I took it off the ball. The shiny stuff you can almost see inside is from the thin layer of silk hankies I used.
Here is my son, Edyk, modelling (mainly so he can stay up and watch some TV). The highlights from the hankies are a bit more visible. This is also after it took a "hand wash" tumble in the washer (front loader - yay).
Here are my hats - the red one is a combination of rust/red huacaya and the white is from suri. The two green hats are highlighted with silk hankies and these were all done on a lissome ball. I'm going to try and do one a day for a while because it's actually a lot of fun especially when it comes to putting the nylons on the fiber-wrapped ball to hold the fiber in place while it gets bounced to start the felting process.
