Advance Planning
Quick summary up top: Many of the retired patterns will be back for a few days next week. They'll be on ravelry and payhip on Monday, July 22. I'll post when everything is live. They come back at a discount, but folks who let me email them (whether by being a patreon member or by being on the mailing list) will get a little something extra. They'll go away again on Monday July 29. More detailed version for those with questions: It's many of the retired patterns, not all. There are some that are either too old for me to feel good [...]
Very shapey shape
Aaaand here's the one worked in the round. As usual, video version where we flop it around and wiggle it over here. For alas, the dictates of physics mean I cannot show you the top and bottom of this object at once in any sort of practical way. Here it is blocking... And the top, when released from its contraption. And the bottom. And the ongoing 'hey, here's how I think about this stuff, here's how the charts are structured' series on patreon is over here!
Shape is very shape
Shape is very shape...excellent shape qualities...absolutely and unquestionably a shape. This works better with the floppy around version, as seen over here. I'm doing a little thing over on patreon where I talk about how these come together...like how they take shape in my head and what the charts for them look like. Wander over if you're so inclined!
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 a human foot.
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 that you can delight in the transformation that awaits. I'll show you the cute version shortly...
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 see quite a lot of slipper action over the next several weeks. As in...the third pattern is on the needles and the fourth is burbling in my head. Consider yourself forewarned.
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 is the one you'll see in the pattern when it appears. Which actually won't be too long, as I managed to get these knit and written up before the plague descended. But I still can't say precisely when, as I am doing some serious resting while I heal. Many thanks [...]
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 non-existent, and I will not be checking email much for a while either. My apologies, but this is a one person show, and that person is currently sick and in bed.
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