Sack
I have come to believe that all slippers, no matter how fetching when finished, must go through a phase during which they look like a misshapen sack. I show this to you both so that you will not be alarmed when it happens to your knitting, and so [...]
Persist
The horrors persist, but so do I. And while I happened to have knit this before the plague befell me, I have actually been industriously knitting slippers when well enough to wish to be upright, but not yet well enough to actually be bopping around. So you can expect to [...]
Plague ship
I am still writing from the plague ship, but feeling better enough to wave, listlessly, from the railing. I offer the back of a slipper as proof of life. This is actually (nearly) the same as the gray one. I realized I wanted to make a few tweaks, so this [...]
Damn
After four years of consistent masking, boosters, and other precations, covid has finally come for me and everyone in my household. I'll be back when I can, but for now, I'm resting as much as I can to hopefully help stave off long term complications. Posting will be light to [...]
A little extra
Ok so yes. The way I block these is a little extra. I have lasts (that wooden, foot-shaped thing there that shoe companies used to shape their shoes around) in there doing most of the work. And then I have a flexible plastic cutting board in there too to help [...]
Never seen a foot
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 [...]
Halfway
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 [...]
Foot-ish
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 [...]
Peculiar
There, does that help a bit? I mean possibly not, I fully admit it's still a bit...peculiar. But at least it feels a little more intentionally peculiar to me at this point! Do you know what it is yet?
Deep breath
This is one of those projects that absolutely will look like you're doing something wrong for quite some time. It eventually sorts itself out, I promise. But there's a good long while early on where you simply have to take deep breaths and trust the process.
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