Taos fuzzy slippers
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knittingpixThe last project I finished was that cat bed that took me two months to make. And it was all red and brown and orange, so by the time I got done with it, I was all "OMG I NEED COLORS! And something I can finish inside of a month!" I took a shine to the Taos Felted Slipper Socks while I was looking around on Ravelry. And I had a skein or two of Taos in that brown/turquoise colorway I always like until I get it home lying around, so bonus! Then I went out to my LYS to find another color to twine with it, and I end up picking the two shades of Jaspe Wool that meant I would be knitting with all the colors in the world.
Speaking of that stupid cat bed? He's been ignoring it for the last three months, he pushes it off his counter onto the floor if I set it up there, but I put the cat bed it took me two months to make on the couch and now the little idiot will use it.
Though I come through my room not twenty minutes later, and... yeah. And there he's been for the last three hours.
Socks, though, socks!
I'm quite pleased with how they came out. It only took about two weeks start to finish. I never finish socks that quickly. Usually I finish one sock, make brisk, businesslike hand-dusting motions while saying to myself "Well! There's that done!", and kind of forget about them until I decide three months later that I guess I should finish the other. I managed to get off by a stitch early in the pattern so I ended up with wacky pinstripes instead of rows of speckles like I think I was supposed to have.
(I don't really like how it looks the right way, anyway. I found another couple skeins of Taos that I'd completely forgot about buying and started another pair of slippers last week.
I don't know if it's the pattern or the colors in those two specific yarns, but I don't like the way that's working up at all. Also Taos is obnoxious and tears really, really easily when I have to tug or spin the yarns to untangle them. I'm still interested in what it looks like when you alternate the colors in each round instead of letting each yarn's colorway line up, which I think is what's supposed to happen, so I might go pick up some more Jaspe sometime and see if that's any better.)
One of the things that interested me about the pattern was that these are made by a kind of knitting called twining, where you work from two balls at once, alternating which color you use for each stitch. This wraps them around each other and results in a fabric that's double thick even though you're only ever using one strand at a time.
The Jaspe really didn't shrink much in the wash--I had to throw it into the dryer to get it to shrink at all--but it works up into the thickest, stiffest felt I've ever seen. It got kind of irritating having to stop and untangle the skeins from each other once every couple rounds, but it was a fun enough pattern that I finished it and thought, "well, I don't really have anything else that I want to knit right now and I'm not bored of twiney socks yet, so I'll just make another pair."
Speaking of that stupid cat bed? He's been ignoring it for the last three months, he pushes it off his counter onto the floor if I set it up there, but I put the cat bed it took me two months to make on the couch and now the little idiot will use it.
Though I come through my room not twenty minutes later, and... yeah. And there he's been for the last three hours.
Socks, though, socks!
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I'm quite pleased with how they came out. It only took about two weeks start to finish. I never finish socks that quickly. Usually I finish one sock, make brisk, businesslike hand-dusting motions while saying to myself "Well! There's that done!", and kind of forget about them until I decide three months later that I guess I should finish the other. I managed to get off by a stitch early in the pattern so I ended up with wacky pinstripes instead of rows of speckles like I think I was supposed to have.
(I don't really like how it looks the right way, anyway. I found another couple skeins of Taos that I'd completely forgot about buying and started another pair of slippers last week.
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| From Knitting |
I don't know if it's the pattern or the colors in those two specific yarns, but I don't like the way that's working up at all. Also Taos is obnoxious and tears really, really easily when I have to tug or spin the yarns to untangle them. I'm still interested in what it looks like when you alternate the colors in each round instead of letting each yarn's colorway line up, which I think is what's supposed to happen, so I might go pick up some more Jaspe sometime and see if that's any better.)
One of the things that interested me about the pattern was that these are made by a kind of knitting called twining, where you work from two balls at once, alternating which color you use for each stitch. This wraps them around each other and results in a fabric that's double thick even though you're only ever using one strand at a time.
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The Jaspe really didn't shrink much in the wash--I had to throw it into the dryer to get it to shrink at all--but it works up into the thickest, stiffest felt I've ever seen. It got kind of irritating having to stop and untangle the skeins from each other once every couple rounds, but it was a fun enough pattern that I finished it and thought, "well, I don't really have anything else that I want to knit right now and I'm not bored of twiney socks yet, so I'll just make another pair."
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