Tracy, the dear that she is, made me a new pair of slippers! Yay! The other 2 pair I have both wore holes in the big toe spots so we thought doubling the yarn on the bottoms would solve that problem. It did, I think, but it brought about a new problem; lack of felting. The double stranded bottom, of course, didn’t felt as much as the single strand top so I had to felt, felt, felt to get them to fit the length of my foot. But that brought about the problem of getting them onto my feet. The pattern casts off at the top opening where you insert your foot and it had felted so much it pinched my achilles once I got it on. So to relieve the pressure I snipped the back of the heel just a bit so that it would stretch to let my foot have some room. Perfect!! I do love them so much I haven’t worn anything since. No kidding. Okay that could have something to do with the fact that other than taking the kids to & from school (driving due to the cold and rain) I haven’t had to leave the house since Sunday. So here the new ones are! Using lambs pride worsted in 4 colors.
