half a hat ?

My online Surface Design in Felting class of Fiona 

has reached it's third week,

and it's no surprise :

I LOVE IT !

BTW, there is very good news 

for all of you who thought you had to wait till the end of summer

for Fiona to do a second run of her class :

the next run starts in April

(till half May)

For this third week 

there weren't as many samples to make as week 1 and 2

So I took the chance to make a piece with

three little techniques in it :

bumps, an enclosed big glass nugget and seed beads.

All of that in a head band

or you could say

half-a-hat

(is that a Mad Hatter or what ?!)

When I made the (first) resist I forgot to enlarge my design ...

(even being experienced doesn't prevent you from doing stupid things  :-(  !)

so then I made a new (bigger) one.

I used two layers merino in blues

One thing : with all these special bits you must do some slow felting !

Despite my calculations the piece stayed too big,

so I cut it in the back 

now I can adjust it to the right size.

front

and the back

(I am definately gonna wear it)