Dec 24th - Years and years ago (back in the 80’s) I made the whole family wooly socks to wear like slippers. New England had cold winters then.

Recently I found the in-need-of-new-soles socks I had made for my Dad, and decided that instead of simply re-doing the bottom half of the socks, I’d instead try out the Duffers Revisited pattern, make some hopefully dense felted slippers, attach the top half of the socks to them to create slipper socks, and then sew non-slip to the bottoms.

Planning on holding the two tone grey and the variegated green together for a grey-green ragg sock effect

Dec 27th - the knitting does go really fast, as I’m about 3/4 the way through. A bit worried about the felting part, since the washer here is a front loader

Dec 28th - finished with the knitting. Next up, felting…

January 3rd - Further progress on the slippers for Dad. After being run through the washer four times, they have shrunk and felted to a more appropriate size. Once they are dry, I can attach the older knitted portion to turn them into slipper-socks, and a layer of non-slip to the bottoms.

Front loading washers are great for laundry and not so great for felting. In this as in much else, patience is a virtue. This is a project being completed in the fragments of spare time between other more intensive tasks