It Came From the Deep

A glove without a hand looks like a sea creature

I like to humiliate myself online by posting pictures of things which I’m highly unlikely to finish (like my Finished Garments section, which is woefully incomplete) and half sets, like socks and slippers and gloves. For further proof, witness the left slipper I crocheted. I am working on it at the same time as the gloves just to up guarantee that these will go into the WIP of doom pile.

I was winging it here. I consider this slipper to be a test as my parents are always clamoring for slippers and blankets for Christmas. Since it’s too late for blankets (well the craft swap DPN’s would come in handy for this if I, um, didn’t already have another project on them), slippers are becoming a must-make. Clearly, they’re a bit roomy up front, but this one’s cotton and cotton doesn’t have much give. I wanted to make sure I allowed for that. Oh. I also messed up my own pattern by leaving out a row of the light pink. A row that contained decreases. The thing of it is, this one still fits better than Take 2 (not pictured). Look at the back/bottom:

It seems to be doing fine.  So if I work out where to add the final decreases without cutting off circulation (first pair was a little uncomfortable after a few minutes), my mother’s covered. The jury’s still out on whether my father will wear pink and green Mary Jane slippers, however. It could be worse. I could be trying to get him into these:

This is no slight on the pattern.  I kind of want these for myself, (but they’re certainly not going to cut it for my father). For those times that I think I’m a princess. But only after I make curtains for my new apartment. I don’t want my neighbors talking about the crazy knitting girl in a tutu and knit ballet slippers from across the way.