So I took a look at that book I picked up for Mel to fold, spindle and mutilate, and it's too good not to share, so I'll have to scan the whole thing ( Read more... )

I got my new slippers!!! They are blue and have pompoms and they are soo soft and warm and wonderful and on my feet right this minute! I should take a picture shouldn't I? They are a lot like the ones that friend of my grandma's made except he knitted in the round and these have soles. And did I mention how soft they are ( Read more... )

There was this very old man in the neighborhood in California I spent my summers at as a kid who knitted. When he wasn't working on big projects, he worked on slippers. Cheap acrylic yarn, whatever he had left from other projects, and as I recall, the toes with ribbed, the rest was garter stitch. He gave them to all us kids, he made them in ( Read more... )