Slippers and more

I mentioned mom's slippers in yesterday's post. I haven't yet felted them and, yes, there is a reason. I am working on another project that I would like to felt at the same time so am holding off. As soon as I get off the computer it should only take me an hour or two to finish the other project, then on to felting!

Anyways, I took pictures of the slippers pre-felting. Warning - my camera skills suck. If I were rich I would hire myself a personal photographer to follow me around all the time and take pictures whenever I want, I am that bad with a camera. Ah well. Sorry.

And the buttons...

I gave up on the blanket I had started the other night. I just wasn't impressed with how it was turning out. So I ripped it this morning. Last night I wound up my last skein of my FAVORITE yarn, Malabrigo Kaleidos.

I love this yarn and if I were stranded on an island with all of my needles and hooks but only one kind of yarn this would be it. I have gone through many skeins, made projects such as a calorimetry and fingerless glove set for my sister and an octopus for my niece.

So I broke out the swift last night and wound up my last skein of kaliedos into a big pretty ball while we started watching Black Swan. Then I sat there looking at it, trying to decide what to make. My needle selection really isn't very good and I am always struggling to decide what to make with my limited choices. I knit in the round a lot but only have a couple of sizes of dpn's and only a couple of sets of tips for my Harmony interchangeables. Compounding the problem was the fact that I had mislocated my little tool to change the tips on said interchangeables and, of course, everything I came up with to make used a different size tip (not surprising since the 13 tips were on the cable).

I finally decided to start on a project that I have been mulling over for, well, a few years. Basically since not long after I first started knitting. I was in this little upscale children's store and they had a lot of knitted items. Not hand knitted, but still had me looking at things and saying "with a little more practice I could make that". Then I found it. A knitted mobile. It had the cutest little knitted...things...hanging. I don't remember now what they even were, maybe moons and stars? It's been too long and I have a memory like a sieve. Whatever, I knew then and there that someday I wanted to make a mobile. Why has it taken me 3 years? Who knows but I finally decided last night that this kaleidos is to be my mobile. I know it's going to have fish, I don't know yet if it will be all fish or fish and something else, but the first fish is almost done! I'll take pictures later.

Oh and, of course, about 14 rows into side one of the first fish, I remembered where my tool to change the tips was. Ah well lol.

Welcome!

Hi there and thanks for checking out my blog! I have another blog, Greenfoley, but it's kind of a hodgepodge of all of my interests and I wanted to start keeping things a bit more organized. Thus, Greenfoley Knits is born. This will be my knitting blog to keep everyone up to date on my knitting and, hopefully, keep me a little more organized and on track with it as well. Occasionally I have items for sale and will list those on here too.

What am I working on now? Well, I just finished knitting a pair of slippers for my mom but they still need to be felted and assembled. Not fully assembled, they are mostly assembled before felting but there is a strap and a button to be sewed on each slipper. If you are interested, here is the pattern on Ravelry, they are super cute and very easy! Well, to knit, we shall see how well I can felt them, thus far I have not had too much success in felting. Thanks to advice from friends I think I have pinpointed the problem to a water temperature issue, so we'll see. I need to go ahead and do them though, they are for mom for her birthday and that's tomorrow!! Ok, so we aren't actually celebrating until Sunday, but still, two days...

I also made her a simple little cup cozy, since her weakness is Starbucks, in the same yarn I made her slippers with - the slippers are two strands of orange Cascade 220 Quatro and one strand of orange Cascade 220 for the soles and two strands of the orange Quatro for the top and sides, one strand of orange and one strand of Quatro for the strap, the cup cozy I used just one strand of the Quatro.

I do have a cotton washcloth on the sticks (also for mom, yes I knit for her quite a bit lol) that I really should get finished. Not hard but I battle my ADD on some projects and that's one of them.

Lastly I started a blanket last night but I'm not sure about it. I'm running 3 strands of Caron Simply Soft, one in black, one purple and one white and on size 13 needles. It's a diagonal, basically a super sized version of a basic washcloth pattern that is one of my favorites. Just cast on 4, knit across for the first row, from then on just knit 2, yarn over and knit across until you feel it's big enough, do a couple of rows of knit 1, k2tog, YO and knit across. Then start decreasing by knit 1, k2tog, YO, k2tog and knit across until you are back down to 4 stitches, bind of and you are done! I love it as a washcloth pattern (mainly because I have a hard time making squares otherwise - I have a large collection of rectangle washcloths lol) but am not sure how I'm liking how it's turning out as a blanket so far. I think it's the colors together, they are nice but it's busy and boring all at the same time.

I am trying to decide what to knit next and also what to take with me when I go to Vegas in two weeks. I am a spur of the moment knitter and as such I usually end up with all of my needles and hooks along with a large selection of yarn in my knitting bag, never knowing what I am going to be in the mood to work on. I am hoping this blog will help me out by helping me talk out what I would like to work on and maybe be a little more organized. I tend to have a large list of things I would like to make and none of them get done because I'm always working on something else.

So that's it for now, if you would like to know more about me, you can find me on Facebook, Ravelry, Twitter and my webpage. Happy knitting!