I owe you a tour of Linearity, the new slippers that just came out (what can I say, the tool cards blew up and I got distracted!) You can, as always, find them on both ravelry and payhip. Or, Rampant Nonsense and Notable Nonsense folks on patreon get it free with their membership for the next few months.

These really do look amazingly like shoes, they just have shoe vibes in a way that I cannot explain but fully stand behind. But they work up very much like top down socks with a heel flap (just minus the leg).

You’ll cast on at the top of the heel flap, work the heel flap back and forth until it’s as tall as you’d like (there’s an option to make it extra tall if you want to), then you work a heel turn. After that, you pick up stitches along the side of the heel flap (just like on a sock) and start working flat. You can either do a contrast heel (like I did on mine) or use the same color for the whole thing.

You’ll work flat (and maybe do a few decreases if you did the extra tall heel) until you’ve got enough fabric that it meets in front of your ankle (you’re making that swoopy part where your foot goes in). Then you join up and work in the round and finish off the foot and the toe.

They zip along in record time (because it’s only the bottom part of a sock, and it’s in nice thick yarn at something like 5 or 6 stitches per inch), and they feel like absolutely marvels of engineering. Plus they’re one of those very logical patterns where, once you’ve knit a row or two, your fingers just know what to do and click along without much oversight.

And they make even my feet (which no one in this world will ever call dainty…miss 12 wide over here on very sturdy foundations) look unexpectedly graceful. And if they can do that for me, you’ll look downright ethereal.

So yeah, make yourself something cozy. If you live somewhere with mud season (look, I’m in Maine, it’s a whole thing), keep a pair in your bag so you can change out of your shoes when you visit a friend’s house. Squeeze them into even the smallest carry on on your next trip so you can feel snuggly at the end of a long day. Make a whole pile of them for holiday gifts (the contrast heels mean you can use up lots of little bits of yarn very easily). I’m pretty sure you’re going to love them!

Once again, they’re called Linearity, and they’re on ravelry, payhip, and patreon!