For those of you just joining me: Finished Object Friday is a thing I made up where I show photos of something new that I knit or crafted in some way.

Why I chose to make this on Fridays? No idea really. I think I just liked the alliteration. And people often associate Fridays with good things.

Feel free to join! Grab one of these buttons, or not. Or make your own. (if you send them to me I’ll put it up here I’ll even host the image for ya!)

You can link to me or not. If you do I’ll be able to find it and will be excited to see your stuff too. Or post your FO or link to your blog in the comments. I’ll add your links to the posts too.

It’s not about cliquiness or anything. It’s just about being proud of your creations and sharing them with nice people.

That said. On to my FO of the week.

I’ve been sticking to the quicker, simpler projects lately for some reason. Things like last week’s little booties, hat, and flower pin. I’ve been enjoying having a “project a day”, makes me feel like I’m accomplishing something. But they’re little projects, so small that by the time I think about adding a project to the “Currently knitting” list on the sidebar that I’ve usually finished it. But I don’t always remember to update my sidebar things, as you can probably tell.

Even though I have several finished projects today I’m only going to show two FOs today though. Gotta save the others for the more ambitious weeks when I don’t have anything else finished by Friday.

FO one: A seriously funky hat.

How friggin cool is this thing? I feel like Huggy Bear. It makes me want to have big white girl dreds so I can shove them inside and have some dangling down. It is the perfect funk music dred sack. And it’s in a wool blend so it’ll be warm in the winter!

And cute ON Winter!

The brim is stiff because it’s felted. And don’t let the photos deceive you the crown is BIG and STRETCHY!

There are a lot of other photos in the flickr set.

The details: This was knit using two skeins of Lion Brand Landscapes in “Desert Spring”. I got the pattern from Stitch Diva Studios. It’s one of three great hat patterns in their Girly Couture Collection. And it only took a few hours. The most time was waiting for the brim to dry. The knitting was really easy. Sewing the brim on was a bit of a challenge but once I worked out the best shape and place to sew it on and got it safety pinned on it was fairly simple using some clear nylon thread.

The other FO: another felted bag with bamboo handles. I consider the hat and purse a set since they’re from the same yarn.

I used the same JoAnn pattern I did before. Here’s an interesting photo of the old finished purse with the new one before felting.

And after felting.

As you can see I knit this one a little bigger than the first one - which measures about six inches tall and eight inches wide.

A lot of people don’t like the way Landscapes felts because it’s 50% wool and 50% acrylic but I like the weird little slubs of color. It adds a unique texture but still has the thickness and durability of felted wool.

I used the clear nylon thread to finish this one too. And added another tacky and funny lining from Joann’s fat quarter sale stacks.

Other things I finished but won’t show yet: finished the fiesta shoulder scarf, a weird neck tube in my grape kool aid yarn, and I’ve also been knitting some dishcloths for Cody’s great aunt who we’re going to visit on her farm in Socorro next week.

So what do you think of today’s FOs? You want my hat don’t you?