Cabbage hat day

It’s Tuesday.

That can only mean one thing.

The British Sewing bee series 2 on BBC2.

Here’s a sewing tribute of sorts then.

I was given two jumpers. They were woolly and biscuit colour and not quite what I would wear.

But that was part of the plan.

So I deliberately hot washed them in the machine. (With hindsight, I would’ve washed them in a laundry bag to reduce fluff.)

When they came out they were child size and nicely dense.

I then used a pattern piece from this site hat pattern

I also didn’t want to use an expensive commercial dye. The hats would be small. Plus they were wool so might not work well with the dye. A lesson I’ve learned before.

I bought a red cabbage.

I diced half, put it in water and added vinegar. I’d read that it might give a greeny blue effect.

After simmering the diced cabbage for a while. I strained the mixture and added the hat.

It’s now a nice greeny shade.