Materials used:DPNs one size 7, and one size 8 – alternating for each row.
Yarn: Cascade 220 Heather; felts nicely. Colours: Dark hunter green; dark purple; dark burnt orange.
This is a size 9 before felting – made with Cascade 220 Heather. The finished felted slipper is about 9+” long. Before felting, it’s over 13” long. The partner to this one has been felted, but this one won’t be because I want to show to the class what it will look like just before felting.The colours are deep earth tones – the pictures don’t do them justice… they look so beautifully rich up close and personal. The colour sequence will be different on its partner. I’m reversing where the dark burnt orange and the purple colours are.
This pattern is truly easy… the folding/seaming might seem a bit daunting, but once you get over it it’s not a struggle at all. Check out the YouTube video for folding the Easy House Slipper.
FELTED: The slipper was washed 2x in a frontloader washer; hot/cold setting; heavy duty cycle; with 3 pairs of rugged old jeans to help with the agitation. I’m going to wait until I finish its partner before I throw them into the driver to shrink more.Now, in the pictures below, the length of the slipper is: heel tip to toe tip – 9” (exactly the size in the pattern.. oh, btw, the sizes noted in the pattern are actually lengths in inches and not shoe sizes).
INSIDE OUT: The slipper inside-out. If worn inside-out, it would still look cool!The seaming was done with a crochet hook and the dark hunter green yarn, slipped sts. But now that I’ve learned how to do the mattress stitch – next time I make a pair, I will join that way instead of with a crochet hook, or needle as shown in the joining video on YouTube.
The slippers I’m working on right now are specifically for the workshop at the YarnBasket – to have as samples for the class.
