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