Felted Slippers, Part One

I have a pair of orange and purple felted slippers that my mother made -- from a pattern she assures me is easy. My friend Miss P wears them whenever she is visiting, and the last time she was here, she expressed a desire to have some of her own. "Aha!" I thought. "Christmas present!"


So I borrowed the pattern from my mother in September and even scored some yarn from her stash ... and then stuck it in my craft room for two months. Craft fairs and other Christmas duties intervened until, a week before Christmas, I had finished all my other tasks. Time to make the slippers! I found the pattern, but the yarn was nowhere to be found.

I searched everywhere, but no dice. Finally, on Christmas Eve, I gave up and bought new yarn -- Paton's Classic Wool -- at JoAnn. Perfect colors for Miss P, at least: black and red. I cast on and knit. They took MUCH longer than anticipated (not to mention some counting errors, oops) so when I finally saw Miss P, yesterday, I hadn't had time to felt them. So they came out of the box looking like this:

I should have put something in the picture for scale. Let's just say that, at the moment, these slippers would be better worn as a hat. Next step: felting!