I just got notice I’m in for the Fuzzy Feet knit-along, sponsored by Mama Kate who also has a great blog.

How great that I went ahead and knit. I did mine in Lambs Pride Worsted mohair/wool, a color that I call cherry but they call Lotus Pink. I added a strand of Peacock eyelash yarn in a hot pink color for six rows of the cuff, we’ll see how that works. It promises to look good.

I stayed up too late last night to finish the second slipper. All I have to do is finish the last 12 stitches. I did a 3-needle bindoff from the inside on the first one…

I just can not justify doing a Kitchener stitch on a felted project, where you can’t even tell you did it. I can do Kitchener fine, but it takes so much concentration and I am not doing it unless the results are worth my effort! I save it for gifts, mostly, because my feet are shaped so that they actually look best with running the tail of the yarn through the last 8 stitches or so, twice, and fastening the end. My middle toe is longer than the first toe and so a straight line at the toe closure just doesn’t make sense.

Anyway, I had only about 9-10 yards of yarn left. I did mine shorter than the pattern called for, so I worry others will run out. I worried *I* would run out until I was several rows into the toe decreases. Whew! I did have another skein (this was from stash) but I just had this idea I did not want to use it.

We’ll see when I felt them. I need pics of the big ones first. I can put mine on my head like a hat… my head is 22″ circumference. My foot is 8″ circumference. I’ve done felting enough (mostly with loose fiber, not knit items) to have faith this will work, but it is always nervewracking until it’s done.

I also am working a little on my legwarmers. They now look like legwarmers, a good sign. And yesterday I did a few more inches on the garter stitch hat for my CityKidz Knit! program. The pattern is from Melanie Falick’s Kids Knitting book, it promises to look great. I just find it hard to motivate to knit acrylic on straight needles, garter stitch or no. I love knitting wool (or mohair or alpaca) in tubes, it’s just my thing.

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