Slipper? Slipper! Still? Uh huh. Still entertained? Uh huh. Feel bad about that? Not even a little. Almost done? 3 rows and a toe to go. Gonna do a pattern? Yup, totally. When? I'll write it soonish, but my guess is it won't be out till the fall.  They feel like a nice September sort of pattern, but I'm making no promises. But what if I want it now?  I know, I'm mean. Or, possibly, there are lots of other things on the schedule ahead of it (you know, like Curls 2), and it takes a while to make sure [...]

Someone swing by and bang this out for me, mkay? It's close.  I think I need like four more repeats of the pattern and a toe. Which shouldn't take long, but then again I sort of feel like I have the attention span of a gnat this week. Curls 2 is just about to go off to the printer (days people, days away) and I always get a little frazzled at this point.  The good news is I know it's just part of the process and am not freaked out by it anymore.  But it still cuts into that productive [...]

Slipper the Second is well underway. I'm just about to start the decreases (which always feels like cheating because it gets faster and faster).  And very shortly after that I'll join up and knit in the round (which I like much better than knitting flat if we're being honest). So in theory, these should only need a few more hours of knitting.  But in reality, I'm hoping this weekend features an awful lot of napping (and I've not yet learned to knit while I nap), so there's a good chance this will look suspiciously unchanged come Monday morning.

So I think I'll just let this one speak for itself, ok? Look at that heel, so tidy I could just about die.  The cast on is right there, but you really really can't see it. Doesn't look too bad off the foot either, come to think of it. And yes, slipper two is on the needles.  There will totally totally be a pattern.  It might not be quite what you think of when you say 'soon,' (I've got to write something about that actually...there's a surprising amount still to be done after the knitting is finished and before the [...]

The slipper is very nearly done.  It's at the point where I am obsessively trying it on to figure out when I need to start the toe (soon, the answer is very very soon).  It's finally at the point where it more or less makes sense to look at, so I figured I'd show it off. So that's laid flat (heel at the right, I'm knitting toward the toes). But it's also dense enough that it will more or less stand up on its own, and it's way easier to see that way.  I actually sort of love how it [...]

The new slipper is coming together nicely.  I think this version will stick! It's weirdly difficult to make sense of it at this stage, but maybe it will help to see it sort of propped up. The bit that's knit so far wraps around (and under) your heel.  In a bit, I'll join to work in the round and then it will head toward my toes like a regular sock.  Should be comfy (and I already know it's cute!).  I'm unreasonably pleased with how scalloped the edge looks.

So I've decided to listen to the little voice whispering 'toooooooo striiiiiiiiiipey' and rip the slipper before I put any more time in.  But I thought I would snap a quick picture on a handy foot form just to show you how it works (still quite taken with building them this way and will totally be doing it again). A toss of the stash has revealed another skein of String Theory (shocked I tell you, shocked). And a few minute's knitting has led to another funny rectangle with stitches on three sides. I can tell already I'm going to like [...]

Ok, let's check in on the slipper.  When last we visited, it was more or less a slightly confusing rectangle.  These days it's an equally confusing and much less describable shape.  Something sort of like this. Or rather, it was like this.  I've since joined those two sides up and started working in the round, which makes for a slightly more comprehensible shape. I'll have to get a foot form pressed into service to really show off how it works.  But the gist is that the back of the heel is over there on the right, and I'm working my [...]