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[jwgh]

Yesterday I finished knitting some slippers I've been working on recently, and today I finished felting them.

Here they are before I felted them. As you can see, they are a lot larger than my regular shoes. They would probably fit Ronald McDonald, though.


Here's a close-up of one of the prefelted slippers.


Below, the slippers have been put in a pillowcase and are being agitated in a washing machine.


Every 5-10 minutes, the washer was stopped and the slippers were examined to see how they were coming along.


The post-felted slippers are a much more reasonable size.


Revel in the felted slipper's fuzzy denseness!

The yarn I used was 'Naturally Tussock Aran 10 Ply', which is 55% [correction: 85%] New Zealand wool and 15% 'polyester effect yarn'.

Comments

[restartsmyheart.livejournal.com]

Perfect size!

[jwgh]

I might want to shrink them down to be a little shorter, since my feet are pretty stubby, but my feet are also wide, so I have to look at that. They're supposed to mold to your feet pretty quickly once you start wearing 'em, so I'll see what they're like after I've worn 'em around the house. Whee!

It was a fun little project.

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

And the missing 30% is awesomeness?

[jwgh]

Ah. Er. That should be '85% NZ wool.'

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Whoa! They look good. Neato.

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

just peachy!

they look so comfortable.

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

Oooh they look SO AWESOME!

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[penelope-arcade.livejournal.com]

so hot!

[cblax.livejournal.com]

they are awesome! what pattern did you use?

[jwgh]

Thanks! It's a Fiber Trends pattern. This one, actually.

[margo-virago.livejournal.com]

nice job, Jake. you always impress me with your mad knitting skillz.