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About Carrie Cahill Mulligan

Park ranger turned fiber artist, out to change the world, one felt hat at a time.

It’s felted

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I *love* Patti’s description of how she felted her own CCM felt hat (from a felt hat kit)… Super resourceful method for felting!

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I cast on for my first CCM hat on Saturday, March 17 and finished the knitting on Wednesday, March 21.  I would have finished it sooner but I miscalculated my yarn amount and ran out of yarn.  By about a yard or so.  I ripped it back to the row before the decreases and all was well.

The yarn is a llama and wool blend and sheds like crazy!  We have a septic system and I was afraid it would clog things up so I decided  to felt it by hand with a 5-gallon bucket, hot water and new plunger.

I should have taken pictures but I did this in the bathtub Thursday evening.  It was unseasonably hot and I was working up a sweat.  The lighting was bad.  Trust me the pictures wouldn’t have been good.

I added about 4-5 inches of hot tap water to the bucket, threw in the hat…

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Winter Craft Markets at the Wentworth Greenhouses

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Embroidering while chatting with visitors to the Wentworth Greenhouses.

Embroidering while chatting with visitors at the Wentworth Greenhouses.

Tomorrow will mark my 3rd appearance at the Winter Craft Market section of the Wentworth Greenhouses Winter Farmer’s Market in Rollinsford, NH.

(Although, technically, there are only fine crafts and no farmers tomorrow, as we are launching the 1st Annual Artisan Celebration & Fair, with extra artisans.)

I love meeting the people who love my embroidered felt hats!

I love meeting the people who love my embroidered felt hats!

I’ve got well over 75 finished hats, plus another 20 or so, awaiting your custom embroidery suggestions…

Finding just the right color hat can be a bit of a quest...

Finding just the right color hat can often be a bit of a quest…

With temperatures dipping into the single digits this weekend, this is the perfect time to treat yourself to an exquisitely practical felt hat.

Such great lighting in the new greenhouse... really shows off the hats!

Such great lighting in the new greenhouse… really shows off the hats!

If you’re within striking distance of the New Hampshire seacoast on Saturday, December 14 or 21, I hope you’ll visit or tell your friends. A stylish warm hat can really change your outlook on winter!

“Exquisite & Practical” – CCM Hat Testimonial from Wendy Besett

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“If you’re just stumbling upon this site, let me tell you something…

Vermont glass artist, Wendy Besett wearing her latest CCM felt hat with dragonfly embroidery.

Glass artist, Wendy Besett wearing her latest CCM felt hat with dragonfly embroidery.

Carrie’s craft is distilled with skill and has integrity visible from miles away. Each stitch of her hats represents perfection.

I own three of her hats (so far!). They are practical for life here in Northern Vermont, yet provide just the touch of understated elegance I like. They wear so well that my seven-year-old hat looks as fresh as the one I just bought.

Glass artist, Wendy Besett, of Hardwick, VT in her latest Carrie Cahill Mulligan felt hat, with dragonfly embroidery.

Wendy Besett in her latest CCM felt hat, with dragonfly embroidery.

Carrie offers her basic hats ripe for personalized embellishment that suit individual styles–always perfect for each wearer!

At the nine-day craft fair we work together each August, I see many women (and men) wearing her signature hats—each so perfect a fit for that particular human that it seems a part of them.

Glass artist, Wendy Besett of Hardwick, VT, camped out asleep at a fall craft show in her CCM felt hat.

Wendy Besett sleeping cozily at a fall craft show in her CCM felt hat.

I love hats and have assembled a largish collection: vintage hats inherited from my great-aunt, hats I’ve traded our hand-blown glass for with contemporary hatters and many made of fleece.

Vermont Glass Artist, Wendy Besett sports a CCM felt hat with Spiral Vine embroidery.

Since getting my first one, I wear no hats but hers, and whether it is winter sports, doing errands in town, or at a fancy-pants craft fair in urban America, Carrie’s hats always get compliments.

Buy a hat birthed from the exuberance of this woman’s soul and, like me, you may feel beautiful, inside and out.

Exquisite & practical, Carrie’s hats are truly ‘art to wear for every head.'”