Look...there are very good reasons I don't normally show you this stage of the slipper. It's because it looks like someone who has heard of but never actually seen a human foot has decided to try and make toe mittens. But I promise...I really really really promise...that it looks good when you get it onto a foot! Wiggly version over here...
Ok so think of this as a halfway point between crumpled heap and properly blocked. This is just shoved onto a foot form (they're called lasts, they're what they used to make shoes around, they're damn handy for blocking slippers), but not actually off the needles or subjected to the indignities of an hour or so in a bowl of water. This is just because I couldn't bear to leave the other pic as your last sight of the slipper for a while, crumpled as it was, so I needed to give it a slightly more structured view. Just in [...]
Those of you who said slipper are absolutely correct. Those of you concerned that this looks like a crumpled heap of bad ideas and dashed dreams are also correct. But blocking fixed a multitude of sins. And every slipper I've ever made looks real damn funny at this point in the proceedings. And then you shove something foot-ish in there, and it springs into shape, and all your doubts are assuaged. At least all of the slipper-based doubts. I'm not really qualified to handle any larger concerns. But I can confidently say this will look more like a slipper and [...]
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