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.