How to Give a Hat a Haircut

Have you ever given a hat a haircut?

I have!

I’ve also made lots of new felted creations in the last two months, but haven’t gotten around to posting them on here.   Apparently doing a million different projects at once has its downsides.  Oops.  🙂

I’m going to start backtracking on here so I get everything updated, and I’ll start with how to give a hat a haircut.

Step 1:  Get a brilliant idea for a new project from your in-laws.  Check.

Step 2:  Spend too many hours researching said project.  As anyone who knows me well will attest to, I tend to over research things.  Research is fun!  I can collect information.  The StrengthsQuest test was right.  I’m definitely an Input.

Step 3:  Realize said project is a good excuse to use the pre-felt that’s become my new best friend.

Step 4: Dump the entire wool collection out while you happily sort through colors.

Step 5:  Attempt the first pilgrim.  Start with the easy one, and make a girl.  Check.

Step 6:  Pause the project while you spend a while thinking of how to make a pilgrim with legs that’s still all one piece.

Step 7:  Needle felt the pilgrim guy.

Step 8:  Decide his stockings are boring and need stripes.  Unfortunately though, the stripes make him look like a cross between a football referee and a piece of candy.  Remove the stripes and recover the legs.

Step 9:  Realize his hat is way too tall.  You don’t want to pull it off and start over though.  It took too long in the first place.

Step 10:  See the shiny pair of scissors taking a nap in the sunshine.  Decide that they need something better to do with their life.

Step 11:  Spend a few minutes using the scissors to gnaw through the hat, until it’s cut down to a more reasonable size.

Step 12:  Re-finish off the top of the pilgrim’s hat so he looks a little more like a normal person than a caricature.

Step 13:  Enjoy looking at your new pilgrims and realize that you need pumpkin bread now.  Ditch the felting needles to go make your apartment smell yummy.

For more pictures of my soft and fuzzy pilgrims, see the Thanksgiving Figures page.  They’re also listed in my Etsy shop.