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.

Cozy Ankles

I make hats for heads. Slippers for feet. Mittens for hands. Sweaters for arms and tummies. But what about the quiet, unassuming ankles? Besides those few mishaps in high school volleyball where they didn't quite show up for me, my ankles have provided me with constant stability (what else can you say that about, really?) It is time those pillars of strength are recognized and honored.

Dearest ankles and lower calves:

I want you to know that you will be overlooked no longer. I hear your voice when you crack on the way up the stairs. What you have to say is important to me. And I will listen.

I'm sorry that I sometimes cut you when I'm shaving. I'd like to say it won't happen again, but you're just so bony and sometimes I'm in a hurry.

Please accept these legwarmers as token of my appreciation for your constant support.

Love always,
Jess

Bootie-licious

One of many pairs of baby booties I've cranked out lately. Stop reproducing people, I can't keep up!

Commit To the Knit

Back in the Boulder days, Katie and I started a knitting club. One night a week we'd all meet at the Boulder Bookstore, order the $5 pie and chai special and get our knit on. Katie and I screen printed these skull-and-knitting-needle "Commit to the Knit" shirts for the crew.