Purple ballet slippers
Making these for my niece.
Update 2/18/08: Frogged and rerolled the yarn for my stash.
Making these for my niece.
Update 2/18/08: Frogged and rerolled the yarn for my stash.
Began | November 30, 2007 |
Finished | Work in progress |
25% | |
Edited | February 19, 2008 |
Pattern URL | Twinkletoes by 3507 |
Made for | Leah |
Size made | child |
finished the first diagonal stripe and found it would be hard to do the short rows after the stripe two at a time (2AAT). hibernating while I decide if I want to do them one at a time.
I’m using two strands of homespun with one strand of premier. I started with 2 baroque strands, then changed to 1 purple and one tudor, and the 2 tudors, and so on. Update, end of October: I decided to make this longer, as I miscalculated the amount of premier I had (more than I thought),…
held yarn doubled. made up cables and little eyelets on the front, and a little different motif on the back. the top front has an overlapping “envelope” section, and an icord tie. meant to line but haven’t figured out how to best do that when the case shrinks/expands depending on whether the iPad is in…
When I realized I wouldn’t have enough yarn to make purple slippers, I went for an elasticy yarn I knew I could get locally. Also some legwarmers to go with this out of the same Cascade Fixation with other worsted weight yarns (Wool Ease in a Lilac, Light Rose Heather, pink, and yellow; KnitPicks Swish…
guessing on the usage of dogwood and magenta simply cotton, didn’t take weights of what was there to start.