When I first looked at the pattern I thought this pretty wool that I only had two balls of would be a good choice and thus enable me to use up more of my ridiculously extensive stash. But after knitting with it for a while I realized it was more like a chunky 4ply than 8ply and I'd begun to question my previous belief that the body of the bonnet was felted since there was absolutely no mention of felting in the whole pattern, just an oblique reference to washing the bonnet and blocking it before attaching the ties and the floral details. I decided I would try another yarn to see if I could get it a better size since this one turned out more suited to a child.
So I found a semi-felted yarn I'd reclaimed from an old op shop jumper and gave that a go. It was easy enough to do since the pattern was so easy and took hardly any time at all to knit up. This was much closer to being an 8ply. But I wondered if I could get a larger bonnet...
Well, it turns out I can! I'd just recently bought this bulky yarn from Spotlight so I immediately cast on. Yes, it is much bigger, almost bucket-big to be honest. And my experiment is complete...and now I have three bonnets that are lovely...and completely superfluous to my needs! How the heck did that happen??
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