Red and Purple Hand Felt Hat

Red felt hat with a red purple flower embellished with purple tussah silk.

Flowery Hand Felt Hats

I've gone all flowery with these hand felted hats.
Lavender, Autumn tones , Sky blue

Winter Felt Hats

Why not look smart and sophistocated in one of these felt hats.
I have wet felted the blue and red using merino fleece and added a flower to show it off.

Dark Brown Felt Hat

This hat I used natural dark brown fleece from South Australia and a little courser than I use for most of my hats being 18 micron Merino, but I like a change and each fibre gives a different result.
I made this hat using the larger size resist and therefor a larger crown and brim.
I added embellishments of green/brown silk and two commercial yarns in those tonings to give it texture.

See this hat at Bellingen May 2011

Sapphire Blue Felt Hat

Wide Brim with embellishments of Silk, Rayon & commercial yarn are a feature of this Hand Felted Hat.

See this hat at Bellingen Market May 2011.

Erupting Volcano Felt Hat

Earth ,Water, Wind, Fire is the theme for this years Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2011. I am entering this in the competition and see if I have any luck but after being up at Alice Springs a couple of years back and seeing the competition entries I havent much luck, but I would be happy to sell it.
If have just finished this hat and have packed it away with other beanies and spun wool yarns.
I used pre dyed merino fleece and tussah silk and angelina (glitter) for embellishement.
It would fit a large size head but probably worn at a party or for a Fun event.

Hand Felted Hats April Show

Hand felted hats are very nice to wear and they dress up an outfit. These 3 styles are colourful and each have a bit of decoration added to them.

These will be for sale at Bellingen Market.

Coiled Beanies No 2

I have been enjoying knitting up this style beanie. Everyone is different. Grey has an extended body allowing for long hair, Green has only a short body and fits close to the head and the Red has a longer body and an opening at the end for a pony tail to hang out of.

Holee Felted Scarf x 2 ( Pink,)(White&Black)

These scarfs are supposed to have holes, which make it light to wear as well as giving warmth around the neck.
The black and white I first laid out 18 micron merino natural white fleece and then added embellishments of a black yarn I had in my stash and another black fine pure wool thread let it fall on the scarf.

The pink scarf was pre dyed pink 18 micron merino fleece which I laid out and in my stash found a pink glitter, pink angelina, pinkish grey mohair, and pale pink rayon thread that I just let it fall on the scarf.

Making these scarfs I only used one layer and are very delicate to make ,on purpose I made the holes to create just something different to a plain scarf. They are only short in length but enough to make a tie with them.

Wide Brim Hand Felt hats

For this wide brim white hat all I have added is the band which I added to the fleece (being 18 micron merino fleece) some white natural mohair and silver glitter.

This green with brown brim hat has a band of the green and brown twisted and felted for decoration.

The back view showing the indent on the top of the crown, and the band tie I have made it a feature to show off at the side. It can be moved to the back if the wearer prefers.

I am taking these hats to the Bellingen Market this Sat weather permitting as the rain fall has been predicted for a few more days.

My Dreddy Beanies 2

More dreddy beanies using merino hand spun/dyed yarn.
refer earlier post for information .
They suit male or female persons and each beanie is a one off.

Front and back view of the beanie

My Dreddy Beanies

You may laugh at these creations but they do look good on. Using hand spun/ dyed merino wool I knit in random rows using different colours. I am lazy and leave the ends poking out instead of weaving in the ends.

I have shown the front view and back view of each beanie.

Alpaca & Merino Scarf/Beanie

Using black alpaca and natural white merino micron 18, I carded together, then spun it up plied it back with white wool yarn and silver glitter yarn.
With the yarn I first calculated approx length and amount for fringe. Then I cast on 8 stitches and using No 20mm needles knitted
till I was happy with the length.
I still had left over yarn so I knitted a beret but had to add just black alpaca which I had in my stash. I will take it to Bellingen Market to see if I have a buyer if not I will keep it for myself as I do love the softness of it and you can wear black and white accessories with any outfit plus I have just bought a lovely black jacket.