My 2nd time experimenting with this technique and interpreting this artwork from the amazing Vincent Van Gogh in needle felting. I tweaked the cone shaping on my pattern a bit to imitate the shape of the spire in the painting and the brim shape is abbreviated because the wizard man this is for needed a sort of ‘stetsonesque’ cowboy/Dumbledore brim vibe. Very Happy with how this came out.

Interesting aside, I recently found out that my 10th great grandmother Mary Town Easty was hung as a witch in Salem in 1692, along with her sister Rebeccah Towne Nurse and my other 10x great aunt, Sarah Towne Cloyce, nearly died in captivity for almost 2 years on the same charge (all were innocent of course)- this came as a real surprise because I am the 1st person in my immediate family to be born in U.S., everyone I am related to is from Ireland, Scotland, Africa or Canada- turns out, the Easty family lost everything in the aftermath of the witch trials and one grandson emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada, founding a branch of my mothers’ family. I had no idea any of us were related to American colonists, who knew? The magical witchy thing just seems to come with the genes in my family! (My sister is wayyyyy mormon and has been diligently doing genealogical research and DNA testing, she only recently was able to substantiate this far back in our Mothers’ ancestral line)