So, I had to do a third starry night inspired magical hat because the 2nd one I made was sold even before it was finished and I really don’t want to sell my 1st one (and people really don’t like to hear ‘not for sale). I am starting to feel a little better about my needle felting skills but also running out of some of my best blues, I might have to get a batch of indigo going again …
I may have to make a 4th one, we’ll see how this goes?
Mods: Abbreviated brim (started w/140 sts) and shorter crown and cone depth, elongated point. I partly made these modifications because I used handspun 2ply on this and it behaves differently than the commercial yarn I used for writing the pattern.

Interesting aside, I recently found out that my 10th great grandmother Mary Towne 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! smile (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)