OK, I finally remembered to take pictures when Brian was home with the camera!

These fuzzy feet are so huge that I can wear them as a hat on my 22″ head. How they are going to fit my 8″ circumference feet, I can not imagine. Thank goodness I have done my share of felting from unspun fibers, and I have checked with others who have smallish feet about how their Fuzzy Feet went.

The verdict is that the length should be no trouble and if I shrink them in the machine they may be a bit too wide. I figure if they feel uncomfortably wide, I can hand-manipulate the shrinking as I do with handcrafted felt, and make them work out. Wish me the best.

I’m thinking I will probably put them in the washer for the first bit of shrinking. I have never used a machine to shrink something (at least not on purpose). I did full one beret and I did it by hand.

I am getting excited about these, though. Several of the folks at the guild knit in on Tuesday had already made some and been pleased.

I am letting the legwarmers sit for now. I’m still inclined to rip out the leg that is pooling and decrease by one, then pray I can duplicate the gauge I have used on the other legwarmer below the cuff. I don’t feel like ripping out right now, so I (of course) started a new project.

Last fall, I got some yarn from an individual online. The seller said it was alpaca, but it came without labels or ball bands. It is not as soft as the other alpaca yarns I have used recently, but soft enough. Perhaps it is a wool/alpaca blend, I’ll never know.

I got two skeins of “honey” which is a sort of tannish beige (I’m hoping this will dye to teal if I overdye with turquoise) and two skeins of purple. I started two cuffs with this yarn today, for myself. I hope I have enough for sox with the two purple skeins. If not, I can make the heels and toes with the overdyed honey colored yarn. This will be the third pair of alpaca sox for me, all purple, in 2003. I’m on a roll, I guess!

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