So, a couple of weeks ago I started the Cylon Hat which, well, didn’t go so well. The hat is good. The Cylon face is good. They’re just not good together…. Basically I freeformed the face and it’s too big to fit on the hat. So, they’re going their separate ways. I’m creating new things to decorate the cloche style hat, and I believe the cylon face is going to now adorn a tote bag of some sort. Just have to figure out what style to make the bag.
I’m trying a few new things since my hat is now a blank canvas…. today I knit a couple of leaves and also a rectangle in the same green so I could try felting them. I felted the two leaves by hand in the kitchen sink. I then decide to partially felt the rectangle, cut out the leaves and finish felting them. I was surprised at how quickly it went. But still, standing at the sink for any amount of time is tiring for me. I pulled up a chair and was happily proceeding with rubbing little leaves between my hands when I felt a little tickle on my forehead… Now, with my often unruly curly hair this is not an unusual occurance, especially when leaning over a sink working. So, I shook my head a little and PLOP! A big ol’ scary black spider landed on my arm! I HATE spiders!!! Here I am, wet soapy hands holding felt when I freaked out a little and spazed because there was a spider on me… it flew off somewhere, and of course I couldn’t find it after that…. The whole time I was sitting there trying to finish my felting I kept eyeing the floor… just sure that damn thing was going to crawl up my leg….
*sigh* ….. I hate spiders…..
In anycase, my counter is now littered with pretty little green leaves in various shapes that I can play around with. My next step is to try felting the edging I knit up over the last couple of days. This will be another experiment that may go horribly wrong… I knit up Oak Leaf Edging that I got from Knitting Daily – Trimmings. I made it twice as long as I would need to go around the hat, since I’m not sure how much it will shrink. It may not shrink width wise as much as I’d like, or it may shrink up all tiny and not have any of the pretty holes left… That remains to be seen. I was hoping to felt it tonight, but we went grocery shopping and I haven’t even put them away yet…
