Here’s my version of the first slipper boot. It doesn’t have a mate yet.
Anyway, to make the slipper boot, I cast on at the top and knit bit of garter stitch back and forth– increasing stitches evenly across the last row of garter stitch. Then, I joined and knit circular, increasing 2 stitches at the center front every round. (Ok, what I really did was increase every other round. Then, I noticed it wasn’t getting big fast enough. So, I ripped and reknit, increasing every round. But, you don’t need to do that.)
I didn’t have a pattern yet. So, I periodically held the slipper up to my foot and decided when it was big enough. Once it was, I thought, “Oh, I need a teensy bit of straight knitting to give this some height.” I decided to knit 1 round plain.
I then dug around my trove of needles and located two double pointed needles to work the bottom strip. (I showed the general technique for short rowing on the underside of a piece of knitting when I blogged about my hand knit felted purse. The slipper is a bit more complicated than the purse– I increased a few stitches to widen the foot from the heel to the ball of the foot. Then I decrease to narrow to the toe. Not at all difficult, but obviously one extra thing to describe in the pattern. )
Using two strands of sport weight yarn makes these boot slippers knit up thick and fast. These are much easier to knit than they will be to describe and code. I drank wine and watched tv as I knit. Heck, technically, I didn’t even have a pattern. I just winged this one — and wrote numbers down as I knit.
Fortunately, I did take notes, and I’ll be coding the pattern tomorrow. I’ll knit up the second slipper from the “stealth generator”, and let people know where to find the pattern after it’s proof knit.
For the record, I weighed this slipper on my not-very-accurate kitchen scale. I think hope pray I have just enough yarn for the second one. I started with 100 grams, and this slipper seems to weigh about 50 grams! (Lucky for me I have small feet.)
I didn’t felt these. Does anyone think I should include a felting option? (What the heck. It’s easy enough to add to the program.)