I have hats on my mind. I felted the Figheadh spirally hat, and while I was at it, I felted a little prototype bag that I had planned to needle felt a lovely design on. So the red hat felted first, and I started some preliminary blocking. And heads are well shaped for blocking hats, […]

Lookie lookie! The fine folks at Figheadh Yarnworks let me test one of their patterns. ‘Cuz’ I’m like a mad Scientist, except with felt. I love this hat. I am about to torture the heck out of it, because trials and tribulations make wool strong and firm. The chart was so fun to work. I […]

This guy needs a protective felt headcovering. One man in Kansas has a new protective felt headcovering: Luckily, dear Hoghead doesn’t look like a creepy creepy mannequin Steeleye and Lolo fished out of the Potomac.  This hat will make perfect sense to anyone who has studied their Heironymous Bosch.  Please, please let me not be […]

I have felted the second teal bag. It is entirely different from what I expected. And it is good. Rather than a column, it morphed into . . . well . . . roundness.  It’s like one of those egg baskets, except if this were full of eggs, it would be really really heavy. I […]

I finished the largest thing I’ve ever knit last night. It’s the second of two (eventually) felted bags knitted out of some Annabel Fox yarn that I got as a gift but didn’t want to wear. I know, I’m felting rare yarn. I forgot it was rare until the first bag was felted and the […]

This wiseguy gets it.  The Maus gets it.  What, you don’t get it? Wanna speed on the appearance of strange hats in your neighborhood? Mad hatter the first has one hell of a hat in her living room and another in the sneaky sneaky works, and a head full of amazing shapes blooming like flowers […]

I’ve been getting comfortable with my scary scary felting needles. I added a spiral to what will soon be the front pocket on my Constant Companion, and my name in ogham on its inner pocket. The spiral mimics the button on the bag, so I hope it looks good once I sew it on. I […]

This weekend, rather than nalbinding as I had planned, I ended up designing a couple of new objects. I made a felted box out of Noro Kureyon. Ok, nothing terribly difficult about knitting up or felting a small box, but the colors are lovely, and it holds a half dozen CDs, and comes up about […]

The Tinsmith show at Blackrock last night rocked. In a folky way, of course. For those of you who haven’t found the band yet, they’re a DC-metro area band who plays traditional Irish and English folk with some great jazzy and rock influences. Brooke Parkhurst, my friend and banjo teacher, sings and plays a variety […]