Mike Slippers, Take 2

Before we left for Miami, I finished these. They're based on Mom's slipper pattern, with only very slight modifications. Her pattern says you can use 1 or 2 strands of worsted weight yarn. I used 1, and I'm not too happy with how they turned out. I'm working on another pair right now with 2 strands and they have a lot more structure. But here are the 1-strand ones, for what it's worth:





Details are on Ravelry, here.

Miami Knitting

For Xmas this year M. and I went to Miami, as usual. I was recovering from being sick and then M. got sick too. Oh well. We spent most of our time there resting at his Mom & Dad's house. To pass the time, I knitted these:

For M.:


This one's a bit blurry, but you get to see M. wearing them:


And for me:

(By the way, big thanks to my sister-in-law, A. Her style of teaching crochet left me feeling all confident about improvising. Yay!)

Details at Ravelry. For the fingerless mittens, go here. For the bag, go here.

Mom's Old Patterns

I looked on Ravelry for slipper patterns, but I didn't find any that impressed me. Not free ones, anyway. However, I did find some that were almost as good as the ones my mom used to make. Eventually, I realized that I might as well follow Mom's pattern instead of these Johnny-come-lately Ravelry ones. (No offense to anyone - I'm just amused that what's old is new, etc., etc.)

So I dug up the old notes that Mom gave me several years back, typed them up in Word, and then thought I might as well take some pictures of the old notes because, hey, mimeograph. Ancient typewriter. And an excellent glove schematic which really, really helps, because I can't read the shorthand her actual notes on the gloves are written in.

Forthwith, pictures for posterity:

Good Fingerless Mitts

I decided to do something easy to recover from the bad slippers, so I made a pair of fingerless mitts. I plan to give them to JV at work, since I saw her typing while wearing a pair of borrowed gloved a few days ago. Shocking.

Behold!

This is how they look when nobody's wearing them:


From the front, when worn:


And from the back, when worn:


I used this pattern here. More details on Ravelry, as usual.

Bad Slipper

Last night I finished a slipper for M. (Like these: Xmas Slippers.)

In a fit of wisdom I had him try it on before I started the 2nd one. It was too loose. Why??? I used the same yarn and needles that I did for his Dad's slippers, and those fit him just fine. Arg!!!

My current plant is to chop up this slipper with an axe, burn the remains, find a spiffy new slipper pattern, and start a brand new pair for M. Humph.

Another Pumpkin Hat

And here's the next one, modeled by a very well-behaved peanut butter jar:

Pumpkin Hat

One pumpkin hat done! Pictures to follow as soon as I get more batteries for the camera...

Now, pictures!