A few years ago I found an interesting slipper pattern on Ravelry (felted) - I really wanted to knit them for myself but at that time, I was overchallenged by this pattern beeing written in english and filled with short rows, so I ended up just dreaming about those slippers... until now! On a relaxing cottage-trip at the countryside with my boys the other day, I finally had the time&the right skills to make them!
This pattern, "Elf Shoes" really is a piece of cake if you know how to knit short rows (I recommend using youtube if you don´t), it´s interesting, fun, goes really fast and I learned a lot about sock-knitting while working on this project.
Details:
Yarn: léttlopi (aran) for the shoes and my plant-dyed einband (laceweight) for the freehand embroidery
Needles: 6 mm
Modifications: I made my slippers longer than it says in the pattern, since I´ve felted léttlopi several times and know how intensely it feltes.
I really, really love those shoes and I´m sure the elves do too!
Freehand-embroidery with plant dyed einband (onionpeel, lichen, lupina and calluna vulgaris)
I used some iron-on-patches to make them last longer...
ohhh how I love those colours of nature...
I also wanted to show off my new button - a very dear friend of the family gave it to me, knowing that I have a thing for buttons :-)
It´s probably one of the most beautiful buttons I´ve ever seen...
Þeir voru alveg rosalega finir. 'Eg hef keypt efni sem heitir (her i Noregi) formgummi.Það er eiginlega notað til að steypa gips en það er notað undir svona töfflur. Þá eru þær ekki sleypar. 'Eg keypti i Panduro. +
ReplyDeleteEg verð lika að segja að það er rosalega gaman að fylgjast með blogginu þínu og sjá allafallegu hlutina sem þú býrð til. :)
Þakka þér kærlega fyrir þetta jákvæða og skemmtilega komment! Mikið er gaman að fá svona viðbrögð - það er svo hvetjandi að einhver sé að hafa gaman af því sem ég er að skrifa og dútla hérna blogginu mínu :-)
DeleteÉg þarf að athuga hvort þeir kannast við "formgummi" í húsasmiðjunni eða Byko - það var einmitt eitthvað svoleiðis sem ég var með í huga en vissi bara ekki hvað ég átti að nota. Takk fyrir hugmyndina!
Oh, your elf slippers are just gorgeous, Kristin, and I think that anyone, person or elf, would be thrilled to wear them :) Love love love the shape, how sweet!
ReplyDeleteAlso the embroidiery of natural colours is very pretty.
Wonderful button too in the last photo, very unique. It could almost be taken for a broch :)
Thank you so much Hilde! :-) You are so sweet! About the button: that´s exactly what I thought... it looks like a brooch!
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