Shape
No, no I don't know what it is just yet. It's mostly...it's mostly just a shape. But it's a cool shape. A bendy shape. A curvy shape. And sometimes that's all you really need to get started with...
Concerns
I mean this at least looks like something you could envision fitting a foot into. We'll press the foot form into service here in a sec so that those of you with...shall we call them reasonable concerns...can reassure yourselves that I have not completely lost track of the shape of [...]
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 [...]
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