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felting to fix a "mistake"

I knitted a wool cap with my koolaid-dyed yarn for the charity box. I thought the hat to be way to big circumference-wise, and so decided to felt it by throwing it in the washer. Gauge? I don't need no stinkin' gauge! :-D Oh, it felted (well, not completely) a good deal before I realized that what I had managed to do is shrink it length-wise and now have a shorter cap with the same width as I started with! Since my motto is "If you can't fix it, feature it", I am thinking what I'll do it toss it back in the washer and really try to felt it completely. I'm thinking that after I've created the felt fabric, I can go back and snip out wedges of the excess width--sort of like creating darts, and then stitch the fabric back together to make the circumference smaller. I'll make the "darts" a decorative aspect of the hat. Does this sound reasonable? I've never done this before and I think I can slip stitch the tucks or darts so that they won't be seen in the felted hat. Ideas or advice??

Thanks!

lisa

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Karlisa
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I cut and sewed the bottom of a felted purse. A bit thick under the sewing machine, but otherwise worked just fine.

joan p.s. What a coincedence! The purse was made of wool that I had dyed. Except, I mistakenly used Jello rather than Koolaid. Well, they were only one aisle apart at the supermarket and it did work! :>

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joan8904

It is a very good idea ,, i would use Blanket stich at the cuts` edges and than embroider those together , maybe with a bead or 2 ,,,, mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

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Madelaine

Go for it! The completed felting might be enough to take care of the problem.

Years ago I did that with a too-big hat that wasn't felted (acrylic) - I just tied the cut ends together inside and worked the ends in, since it was for me. You could either try to hide the darts or emphasize them as a design element.

=Tamar

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Richard Eney

Thank you to everyone for your help with this. I'm now actually looking forward to the "great experiment"! If it turns out okay, I'll post photos. Thanks for the advice!

lisa

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Karlisa

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