Hat or Bowl?

You may have noticed that I don't often post pictures of myself (you probably thought that was me in the rocking chair knitting?) There's a reason for that. You see, I have this weird camera, and it adds 20 years and 50 pounds to my pictures - not everyone else's - just mine! But I'm making an exception today to show you how my hat turned into a bowl.
I was planning to make this hat for my Maisie Dobb's (whoduknit) project - at the beginning of the book when she is first introduced she is wearing a cloche, and I also wanted a hat to match the intrelac scarf I made awhile back. The pattern is from Nicky Epstein's knitted flowers, and it has a felted flower embellishment on it. I admit I didn't use the Trendsetter yarn called for - but it seemed to be the same weight as the Noro I was using - so I knit up this huge hat:


Yup - that's me! I felted it and it turned into this:

Which looks much better as a bowl.
It's a beautiful bowl - but what do you do with a felted bowl that matches your scarf? I think I'll fill it full of balls of beautiful hand-dyed yarn!