>>2790555I recently made another wool cap.
>worsted weight yarn>100% wool (cheap stuff, lol)>made on a round loom (1/2” spacing, I think)>e-stitched (easiest)>fulled/feltedIt’s acktchually a really fun DIY project. Plus I get to feel like a LARPer in my homemade felt cap.
You wrap the yarn around the pegs twice, then loop the wraps over themselves. You continuously do you, and it forms a tube of fabric. There are plenty of how-to videos in YouTube. Then you tie off one end.
The result is a knitted hat. It’s almost like a net shape, with large holes between each stitch. It won’t do much against really cold weather. That’s where fulling/felting comes in.
Fulling is the process of turning a knit garment into a solid piece of felt. Felting is similar but done with animal fibers, though the terms are often erroneously used interchangeably. The knit hat is dunked into a pot of hot water (but not so hot that you can’t handle it). Take the hat out and squeeze out the excess water. Then repeatedly slam the hat down into a bowl or pan (so you don’t get water everywhere) until it cools. Repeat the process until it’s a solid piece of fabric.
When wool is warm and wet, the individual wool fibers open up. By agitating them, the fibers grab onto one another, forming a solid fabric from a knit one.
No one asked any of this, but /out/ is my private blog.
