I made some toasty felted slippers for myself. They turned out well, I thought.
This is where I found the pattern.
http://hurpeknagg.blogspot.com/2008/01/felted-slippers.html
Thank heavens she did a color coded chart or I would never have been able to put them together---must have a spacial orientation problem. The pattern is for hand knitting, but I did them in a flash on the machine. Sewing them up took a little longer. In order to sew the right square to the correct match, I hand sewed yarn markers where the colored dots were and butted up the matching pieces. It was a leap of faith for a while there. I'm amazed when people come up with clever things like this.
I used Lion Brand Wool, two skeins. One black and one purple. It's considered medium worsted, three ounces is 158 yards. I used my midgauge machine and at T 10. was able to get squares with 22 stitches x 30 rows to fit my size 9 feet. If you wanted smaller or larger slippers, since felting is so unpredictable, you'd have to make some guesses. In case you are wondering, I did a random pattern with the two colors and didn't care if the two feet matched.
Since we are still in the throes of winter, these are coming in handy!
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I'm glad to see you did these! My 7 year old daughter has been handknitting them....and it's taking FOREVER. LOL. I wanted to do them on the machine, but I know the garter st felts differently than stockinette....but by finding the right row number to make a square I guess that solved it?
Oh boy. I'm so hard on slippers; I've had to replace the soles on my 'double thick' slippers a couple times already! I could do that pattern in my sleep, but I love felted slippers too! And those ones are so darn cute!
A friend hand knit these doing garter stitch and they did come out thicker. But, I find they are really warm anyway. It was kind of a miracle they ended up fitting because things shrink more in length than width when felted, but the hand knitting pattern must account for that too.
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