Has anyone made their own felted wool from wool roving like seen here?

Would that be the right material to make a Balmoral or Caubeen?
I feel like if this is a proper way to get the fabric then I could pretty much make any color (or combination) that I wanted - I've even seen some vids online of people making beautiful artwork/illustrations right into the wool during the felting process.

How thick should a Balmoral material be? My wife brought home some felt squares from the fabric store for some project she was doing but they seemed reeeeeeeeally thin and floppy for my purposes - I didn't think they'd make a good cap at all. (And I suspect they were a blend)

IF this is good to make caps with how much does the material shrink during the process? Like say I wanted to end up with 14" square pieces how big would you start? Would the manufacturing process count as the Jocking or do you think I should Jock it more after it's built? (After reading X-Marks there's no way I wouldn't Jock a cap just on general principle.)

K-Day* looms ever closer and I am just itching to get some stuff made for my new arrival. Saturday I started work on my first sporran in a class at Tandy leather. I'm learning a ton from that but the best part is I'm learning what I really need to work on skills-wise to make succeeding sporrans better. (carving and tooling for one thing - practice practice practice to get a steadier hand!)




*Kilt day. My first. Due in mid-November. Holy MOSES it's hard to sit still!