Roll-edge Hats Galore

I bought one of my nieces a book about knitting aimed at the younger crowd and was tickled with the a hat pattern in there. First I got out some Lamb's Pride Bulky in Blue Flannel and made it according to the pattern for one large and one small Beanie Hat.


Then I altered the pattern a little and knit a small and smaller hat with wool that I dyed with Kool Aid. I am blocking them on a rubbermaid bowl in front of the fire place.

Finally, after that, I decided to knit the pattern with pencil roving on slightly larger needles. Then I tossed it into a pot with three packets of Berry Blue and one packet of Black Cherry Kool Aid. I planned to dye and felt/full on the stove top.



The roving hat might be my first real felting/fulling mishap. I tried everything boiling it with soap, going back and forth between rapid boil and ice water. The more I boiled it with soap, the more color it lost and it never did full. I'll share photos later.