Sorry if this is popping up for you for the second time. I had to remove it last time because I posted on the wrong day. It seems I can’t read a calendar.

Last Saturday I taught a felted hat class. I had 6 students doing a variety of styles. I was sure I took more pictures but they are not on my camera so I must be doing something wrong. Thankfully, some of my students had pictures I could use. Thanks to all of you.

Let’s start with Dani’s hat. She wanted a cloche-style hat.

Then it was almost right but she wanted to flatten and shrink the crown. So, using her head ( it is your best hat block) we worked with the rubbing tool to get the hat to where she wanted it. She did do some more rubbing herself.

 

This is the finished hat. You can see she used a different colour inside.

Next is Leanard. Leonard wanted a Robin Hood hat. this is a hat that perches on top of your head rather than fitting down around your head.

Here is the layout

 

And the finished hat. I say finished, but Leonard is going to work on shrinking the length more.

 

Next is Christine. She wanted an oversized beret.

 

The finished hat. I think she was happy with it. What do you think? LOL

 

now we have Luna who wanted a witch hat. She picked a great deep purple for it.

 

This hat was a big layout so it took a little longer from start to finish and we ran out of time. Luna took it home for the final shrinkage and fulling of the brim to stiffen it.

 

Lastly, we have the 2 I don’t seem to have taken any progress picture of.

Barb’s Cloche hat. She used some silk hankies to decorate her hat they won’t show up well until it’s dry.

And Susan’s folded brim hat. The turquoise was such a good colour for her.

All in all, it was a really fun class with great results.