...don't know when I'll be back again! I heard this song in a movie preview the other day, and now I can't get it out of my head!

(compare to previous photo of slipper no. 1 with about 100 loose ends)

Last night I knitted my brains out until I finished slipper no. 2 (no, it did not take THAT long, but I have a lot to do). When I read Jennifer’s comment about all those ends on the first one, I decided to do things differently the second time around. Why did I cut the yarn EVERY TIME I changed colors? Oh right, because the pattern for another striped slipper in the book said to. Oh, the trials and tribulations of a beginner. On slipper no. 2, I carried all three colors along the length of the foot (albeit incorrectly, I’m sure) and saved myself a lot of trouble! I’m sure I did something wrong because I just made up a way to carry them along and the stripes don’t match up quite right. Since I’m a busy girl and no one is going to see the bottom of my slipper anyway, I zipped through all the color changes and wove in the few ends in a jiffy.

When I got up this morning I got right to work and tossed my two huge slippers in the washing machine for the first of 5 (or 6? I lost count) washes. It usually takes us 3 washes to correctly felt in our machine so I wasn’t surprised. I finally settled on the finished product a little while ago, realizing that these really weren’t going to shrink any more.

My slippers ended up a bit bigger than I had anticipated, but I think it’s because I used Lamb’s pride and not the yarn suggested in the pattern. Should have felted a swatch, whoops! They look a bit like clown shoes to me with the rounded puffy toe, but I think they will actually work quite well as slippers. If I made them again, I would knit the heel a lot shorter so they would actually be clog style, instead of having the bootie shape. As soon as they dry off they are going into the “to be sent: winter” box that I’ll certainly need in the winter months.

Tomorrow I'm off to DC for orientation and then I'll be taking Japan by storm so there will be a short blogging hiatus. I'll be back next week if all goes as planned!