The end of the felted bowl saga

My family seemed to like the felted bowls I gave as Christmas gifts. Here's some of my family members pretending to mistake the bowls for hats: two sisters on the left, two nieces and a nephew.

My sister's hand!

Per my sister Michelle's not-so-subtle hint, I knit her a pair of fingerless gloves in black. She loved them! This is her hand.

Manos hat in a jiffy!

Last night I decided to finally do something with the one skein of multi-colored Manos del Uruguay that I've been hanging onto and admiring for months. Voila! A chunky ribbed hat. I made up the pattern myself as I went along, holding two strands together and using circular size 15 needles. Me likey! But I think it might need a pom-pom!?

MORE felted bowls

I've decided that the Patons yarn felts up better than the Cascade. See how the red bowl at upper left shrunk more, and the stitches aren't visible? That's the only bowl in this picture knit with Patons. The rest are Cascade 220, and I re-felted them trying to get them to shrink and felt more, to no avail. Maybe I should felt them yet again? I like the color selection with Cascade better than Patons, at least what is easily available to me at local shops. The Cascade is felting tolerably -- the bowls hold their shape and all -- but compared to the Patons, it's leaving me frustrated.

At any rate, I have this pattern memorized! It's from one of my favorite books, One Skein: 30 Quick Projects to Knit and Crochet