Saturday, February 27, 2010

So Many Slippers

It was quite the sweatshop around here preparing for Christmas this year. My gift of choice was cozy felted slippers.


These were my first experience with felting (knitting wool and then washing it in hot water to make it shrink) and it was so much more fun that accidentally shrinking wool. If you can get over the temporary wet-dog smell, you can really make some cool stuff.

This is how the gigando slippers looked before I put them in the washer.


And this is how they look after.

To finish them off, I sewed leather on the bottoms and made some gift tags using rubber stamps.