Four finished hats, the beginning of two new projects, plus the proof that I did manage a little picture editing on my new tool toy. Thank you for all the encouraging comments on my last post. It’s nice to know I’m not alone in this over-wired world 🙂
The first hat, finally felted, is the one shown unfelted in a post last month. As I was taking the picture, that old song with the lyrics “bend me, shape me” popped into my mind (and is still floating there 🙂 and these are only two of several shapings I tried. Felted hats can be worn in many different ways.

green felted bucket hat
The other finally finished felted hat, is shown unfinished here.

hand spun ribbing and thick and thin crown.
The next two hats are from the spun and dyed yarns shown here. Both knit from the same basic Ravelry pattern, but varying how/where each yarn was used and throwing in some random purl stitches. (Plus with editing I was able to white out half of the background 🙂

hand spun ribbing with both yarns alternated in the crown.
The new beginnings include a cowl from hand dyed yarn, some more snow dyeing(yellow,orange,and blue), and lots of computer work! The dyeing is now hanging to dry (a softly shaded pastel), the cowl is finished (I tend to knit a lot when frustrated!), another hat has been started, (no pictures yet) and learning the computer is going to be a long work in progress 🙂

snow dyeing

beginning of cowl