Another Pair of Ugly Slippers

It was January. And I was nearly finished with my Christmas knitting. (For 2018. Which, at this point, is pretty good for me.) So, when I got a request in the comments for a pair of the slippers, I promised that I could have them done in a couple weeks.

And then my ceiling rained down on me.

I still have a big hole in my ceiling. But my projects are coming along again. So, I sat down and finished the slippers last week, on Saturday to be precise.

The photos were taken on Sunday.

I probably should have checked to make sure she still wants them. It is getting warm again, after all. But I didn't want to promise a finished pair again without having a finished pair finished. Because, well, tempting fate and all.

It's nice to be finishing things again. Actually, that's the plan for April. I have some projects that have been waiting in the wings for a while that I can spend time on.

Mondays are the days I talk about my knitting (or crochet) projects. Hopefully all will go according to plan.

Do you have your April posts planned out? Did you have anything happen to throw your normal schedule out of whack?

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Finishing Up Christmas Knitting

My Christmas knitting is almost at an end. I just finished up the last pair of ugly slippers... 

Since I never showed these off as I was knitting them, these are the pair that I finished before the green... 

And a shot of all four complete... 

Although, not quite. They'll require a bit more finishing before they're ready to be mailed off. I have yet to attach soles to the bottom so that one doesn't slip on slippery floors when one is wearing them. And the twins requested dinosaurs. A little sewing, that's all. 

And I'm doing a little designing. A walking purse... 

I still have a couple pieces to finish, and then assembly. I may write up the pattern eventually. 

And then HapkidoKid's 13th birthday was the day after Christmas. His birthday scarf is in progress... 

So, I have a few projects still. But, I'm closer to the end of them all than the beginning. Not too bad. 

(Ideally I would have had everything finished in time for Christmas. But I'm good with only being a month or so late. I'm better off than last year.)

The Ugly Slippers

My great-grandmother taught me to knit when I was 16. (This was my mother's mother's mother.) The reasons why are a story for another day. She started me off learning the knit and purl stitch. Then she gave me my first project, a pair of slippers.

I knew the slippers. GramMavis made them for everyone in the family.

I no longer possess my first project. Those slippers wore out a long time ago.

But, over the years, I have made other pairs of slippers for me and for others in the family. (GramMavis passed in the early '90s.) Not for a few years, however.

Christmas is coming. Upon discussions with the family (where I threatened various things if they did not give me an idea of what to make them), the idea of slippers came up. I can knit slippers. I don't even need to go out and buy more yarn. I don't even really need to look up a pattern. I know this one by heart.

But, they are rather ugly...

Once they get washed and worn, they stretch and mold to the feet.

The only concern was that the soles are yarn, and they have non-carpeted floors. I looked online for a solution, and I'm going to attempt to add a bit of a nonslip sole to them, but that's a project for another time...

I'll do the soles all at once. I'm making four pairs of these.

If you've noticed, these have two colors. Red and purple. And yes, I did that deliberately. I mean, they are ugly slippers. So, I double down and look for the most glaring color combination I can find. I'm particularly fond of purple and orange, but I make the combo for me.

Perhaps I should offer these in my Etsy shop. Do you think anyone would want a pair?