First, the baby cardi (aka Avocado) is happily off the needles. It needs some darning of ends and sewing of buttons . . . Ahhh, buttons! Which ones to choose? They could all work, but I narrowed it down to two: the pearl ones and the wooden ones.
Truthfully I had always envisioned the finished item with wooden buttons for a casual, rustic feel, but the pearl ones look pretty . . . Decisions, decisions!
While I pondered my button choices, two requests came in from my family. Everyone needs slippers! The slippers of my youngest fell apart. Considering he got more than a year's use, I can't complain. My own slippers lasted a few months before falling part--guess I'm hard on my feet. Since I had lots of the same yarn leftover, I made the same style using the same yarn. The Non-Felted Slippers by Yuko Nakamura are a great design--easy to follow and quick to work (you may recall the pattern mods I posted here).
The slippers were completed over a few days (lunch and naptime are the best times to squeeze in a few rounds of knitting). They only need some seaming (of course my mind pondered the possibility of creating a solid sole by using Judy's Magic Cast-on--could it work for this many stitches? I wonder . . . ).
And dear hubby requested slippers too. His old ones were the traditional two-tone Phentex slippers--and they were dying. For a change, he's willing to try the Non-Felted Slippers, mainly because these moccasin type slippers are a quick knit. And if I use Phentex yarn, then they should still be quite durable (he's tough on his feet too). Since hubby's feet are much bigger than mine, I've made mods. I added extra stitches at cast-on, but am still working the same number of increases. I'm hoping they will be sufficiently larger to accommodate hubby's man-sized feet . . . we'll shall see in a few days.
Now back to my reguarly scheduled studying (after this week's exam, I'm a free woman). Have a good week! :)
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