@OrchardFelts and @CatkinDesigns thanks for your input. The moth has munched on plain mid grey (Ash I think) so that shouldn’t be too hard to find a similar shade in either BFL or corridale, from my limited knitting experience cashmere is more slippy off the needles than merino which in turn is more slippy than BFL so maybe you need the rougher fibres to get them to ‘stick’ to each other when felting and as a novice I definately need a ‘stickier’ fibre. The hole is about 5p sized so not too bad, I wasn’t sure how well the felt fibres would ‘stick’ to the cashmere which is why I was thinking a sandwich arrangement so the fibres from the top could be felted to the fibres at the bottom through the loops of the cashmere knit. I shall go and see what I can find in mid grey and possibly what a replacement jumper would cost but if I experiment on this one (which is useful but not one of my favourites) then should anything happen to any of the others I would know how to fix them.
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