With all my many years of crocheting I have recently fell in love with
the idea of felting. It all started with my hard working husband wanting a hat
without holes he can wear while spending hours shoveling snow. Above that he
also wanted it to be a donkey hat, like one I had made him with acrylic yarn. I
have been working on it for *cough* months *cough*. That is so sad, it should
only take a few days to make my wonderful amish bearded husband a hat, but I
keep messing it up!
I don’t understand felting! Or rather fulling. I know how to crochet
and I have read everything I could find online about it but I still have
questions.
1) 1)
I read that felting makes a piece shrinks.
But how much? Do different stitches shrink differently? What about the yarn, do
different brands shrink different? Roving vs regular yarn?
2) 2)
What is all this wonderfulness I read about
dyeing with Kool Aid? Can it really work that amazing? And is it better to felt
first or dye first?
3) 3)
What happens if I crochet with two different
colored wool yarns?
4) 4)
How about if I crochet with 1 wool yarn and 1
acrylic yarn? Will the wool still felt around the acrylic, or will it become a
hot mess?
5) 5)
Does the top loader work better or a front
loader. I’ve read a lot about how to felt in the two different machines, but
does one do a superior felt then the other?
Ok so want to see some of my mistakes?
They are really tiny.. er I mean cute! My hubby has a big head, in the 90th percentile for a male adult! hehe. We get a good chuckle because one of our boys follow in his footsteps in head size. As a baby we called my son pumpkinhead because he had an adult size head by 1 year old! So keep in mind that I crocheted this so big it was floppy on my sweet humble husband... and here it is on my 2 year old: 
That silly face! She loves taking pictures and I had to really stretch to get that hat on her head :). See that laundry in the background... Yah I'm choosing not to don't as well.
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