to save a hat

I did a thing today.

Quite a while ago, I supported a great sustainability kickstarter that involved teaching indigenous women in the Philippines to knit. I got a hat through it, which looked a little something like this:

I loved it. I wore it. A lot.

But then once I pulled it off with an acrylic sweater, which it ended up inside of. So when said sweater was tossed in the wash, said poor hat went in too.

This lovely cables became this:

 My camera didn't even want to focus on them.

My heart was broken. But I paid $40 for this hat, and some wonderful woman out there in the world spent her time to make it for me. So I still wore it. But now it sat up on my head like a bowl cut or a mushroom cap.

I was determined to fix this. And so, some hours and lovely blue variegated yarn later:

It's perfect! Well, not as much as if it hadn't gone through the wash, but I consider it   sufficiently resurrected from the dead.

So, have you been able to save any felting mistakes, or transformed them into something else?

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Listening to: Ampersand by Unwoman. Beautiful rendition. I have a weakness for that little vocal squeak she does at one point during the bridge.