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’m about 50 pages into one of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read: Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years. I’ve tip-toed around this book for ages. I got it as a present, and I’ve been trying to read it slowly, like an Encyclopedia, so I don’t use it up too quickly. Well, time to […]

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 […]