Fuzzy Feet
Pattern: | Fuzzy Feet | Started: | 6/25/2003 |
Yarn: | Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride - Amethyst | Completed: | 6/27/2003 |
Yarn: | 16" US 11 circulars / US 11 DPNs |
These Fuzzy Feet slippers are wild! It probably only took about 8 hours of knitting, total. (Note to self: could be a fantastically quick Christmas present...) I showed them around to people before felting, and got the oddest looks until I explained that I was going to shrink them. A lot. Well, after all, I don't think that there's anyone who might have been able to wear them, except maybe Hagrid. ;) One ended up slightly smaller than the other, because I foolishly used DPN's for the entire first slipper, then switched to short circulars for the second, and my gauge came out a tad bit different. They still work, though. I also made the mistake of assuming that one skein would be enough, and had to make an emergency trip to the yarn store for a second skein to finish the toe of the second slipper. Fortunately, they still had the same dye lot in stock. |
The only other problem was that the blue and purple towel I used for agitation - that I've only washed, oh, a thousand times - decided to pill, and now I have blue fuzzies on my purple fuzzy feet. Oh, well. They took about 20 minutes to felt, then I let them go through the cold rinse and spin part of the cycle. I think maybe a few minutes shorter would have been better, or maybe hand-rinsing them, because they ended up almost too small! |
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