That Was the Hat that Was!!!!

My friend phoned and asked me if I would please knit some toques for her upcoming sale. I decided that this would be the perfect use of some of my hand spun hand dyed silk. The first toque was complete. It felt a bit stiff so I decided it should be wet finished. I placed it into a large bowl of hot water and orvus paste. Then because of my (English bought up in the war nature. When everything was rationed) I decided to throw in a few skeins of silk that I have recently spun. The silk had come from Treenway and it was multi coloured very pretty. The dye ran from the skeins of silk into the hat. Not only that but silk stretches when wet. And it only partially recovers when dry. What a disaster!!! Oh I have a lot to learn So one of the pictures is the silk how it looked before it was knitted the other is the hat after it went through the wars. And the other hat turned out quite successfully with the bamboo eyelash bans however it has not been washed. This hat will not leave my house. I am now knitting toques in wool for the sale. Stayed tuned .