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Today I’d like to share a picture of my latest knitting project; created from a pattern available on Ravelry. Non Felted Slippers by Yuko Nakamura. I used my favorite James Brett Marble Chunky yarn and am really pleased with how they turned out.
I’m going to try the pattern again and adapt it to try for a boot version by adding some extra rows above the top edge.
Hope you like them and will give them a try, the pattern isn’t too hard. Stitches needed: Knit, Purl, Knit 1, Knit 2 together, Pass slip stitch over. They are knitted flat and sewn together at the end.
I know it’s a little early in the year to post a picture of cozy slippers, but due to dexterity issues, I have to make the most of the good weather to knit. Once the weather is cold n wet my hands don’t work so well.
How about you, what are you knitting right now?
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie 🙂
They look very cozy indeed. Nice job.
Thanks, I’m going to try modifying the next pair I make so they are a boot version with some extra rows at the top.
Oooo, I like those! I was going to do felted slippers for my grandma for Christmas but those look great too!
They were quite quick to make. Give them a try.
Love these! I just got a pattern for slippers that works on my new knitting board. I can’t wait to try it out! 🙂
They look great Billie. Would they be slippery on wood surfaces? They do look cozy though 🙂
Hugs
Lynn x
They are a bit slippy on the wooden floors and on tiles in the kitchen. The pattern suggests painting the sole with some kind of latex glue for a more grippy finish. I’ve seen something of the sort from HObby Craft, but didn’t buy it as for clean up it said don’t wash in sink or pour down drain as can harm marine life. So I’d rather keep these for upstairs where there’s carpet, or for in the evenning vegging with my feet up 🙂
I may need to give these a try – they look so warm!
[…] readers will remember the slippers I knitted recently that I’d enjoyed so much. The pattern is on Ravelry by Yuko Nakamura […]
[…] readers will remember the slippers I knitted recently that I’d enjoyed so much. The pattern is on Ravelry by Yuko Nakamura […]
Hi, Love your slippers. I saw the original pattern by Yuko Nakamura, but could not understand the instructions. In the very beginning, Row 1, what does PM stand for?? In fact, what did the P and the M stand for throughout? Does M stand for ‘make 1’? I hope you can help. Inge.
Hi
Hang in there, they aren’t as difficult as they sound 🙂 PM means Place marker, and M does indeed mean Make 1. A great place to help you through knitting terms is Knitting tips with Judy on You Tube. Judy films so that you are viewing over her shoulder, which means you get the same view of her project as you would your own project. Check out the Yarn tab at the top of the blog and her tutorials are listed under blogs or Tutorials. Ravelry is also a great site as you can ask questions from the pattern designers and others who have knitted the project which is a great help.
Being dyslexic I get very confused with knitting terms, so I re-write the pattern out long hand ie (K1 gets written as Knit 1) and so on, lots of knitters do this especially at the start and it can really help. I get most muddled when you have patterns which ask you to do numerous things all in the same row. To help find my way through those, I use different coloured pens for each instruction so that it helps me focus on the part I need to.
Good luck with your project, do pop back with a picture when you finish them
Best wishes
Billie 🙂
Hi, Thanks so much for your reply. I think I need one of your ‘dyslexic’ fully-written out patterns with photos to help with these slippers. I wish you could post them. I always find instructions a bit confusing and if I cannot visualize what part I’m knitting things are even worse. For example, it doesn;t say whether it’s the sole or the sides or the top that you start with, so I feel completely in the dark and will have to hope that things become clear as I continue to knit.
I will check out Judy’s site. Your own site is fantastic too and I will explore it with pleasure. Thank you once again for your help, Inge.
Hi Inge
I wrote you a long reply earlier but it got lost so lets try again.
Have a look at the Yarn-Reviews section, The Knitting book is superb for when you read a term in a pattern you don’t understand, its like a visual dictionary for step by step how toos. Bear in mind that if you are in the UK and used to reading UK patterns that if you buy from Etsy or often on Ravelry that the USA has different names for some stitch patterns, needle sizes and so on, The Dummies Guide to knitting has an American author and is good for deciphering the US terms. If you can only get one go with The Knitting book.
Commercial patterns often have a guide to the abbreviation’s they will use, but not all patterns of Ravelry do, you can usually post or email the seller for clarification though. Shout if you get stuck on the pattern but I cannot re post the pattern longhand on here as the copyright for it is with the author. Some options that might help.
Re print the pattern so you have a copy you can scribble on, then identify the terms you know as in K for Knit and M (?) for make (however many) and use highlighter pens, use the same colour through out so you can quickly spot them. Next write out each line of the pattern replacing the K with the word Knit and so on, I do this in a little book, so I can keep them together. Do it in pencil first just in case you misunderstand a term and need to change it. Lined paper also helps. Patterns are written in abbreviation’s to keep the page numbers low, other wise clothing patterns would be paperback sized, but its like a whole new language when you start out isn’t it. I’m still learning too.
When you search for a pattern on Ravelry use the beginner option from the menu as the easy/beginner patterns are more likely to be either short and simple or some are already written out in long hand, it sometimes says on the pattern description.
With the slippers you are starting at the sole and working very long rows to start with which will later sew together to form the sole. Part way through you put in stitch markers and knit too and fro without knitting right to the end of a row, which seems odd but its forming the part that covers the top of your foot, there is a picture on the pattern of the slippers with them still on the needles which shows this.
Judy’s You Tube channel is great and I use it a lot as I’m a visual learner too, some people find charted patterns easier as they are printed on squared paper and each stitch has its own symbol, it can be easier to visualise how the pattern is coming together but confusing as you are reading left to right THEN right to left so it can get you in a muddle. I find it difficult to read line to line with the dyslexia so I find them hard but if you have a pattern that has both options having them side by side can help.
Pheonix Knitting forum is a very friendly place and they have helped me loads when I get stuck, I think I’ve put a link to them in forums at the right side panel on the blog shout if I haven’t and I will do.
Good luck with your project, and its worth practicing sewing up seams on a separate scrap of knitting so you get a flatter finish so you aren’t walking on a hard line when you sew up your slippers.
Best wishes
Billie
Hi Billie, Thank you for your great advice, I will write out the instructions as you suggest. I’ll also check out the Knitting Book and Judy’s Youtube if I get into more trouble. Thanks for being so patient and helpful, All the best — Inge.
I just finished the first slipper and it was so quick & easy. I will be making more pairs later adding higher tops. I have been knitting for over 50 years & find the new instructions sometimes confusing. Like ssk & k2tog are the same thing, right?
Not quite, it makes a difference to the direction the stitch twists. Have a look at Knitting tips with Judy on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/user/knittingtipsbyjudy she demos well. The stitch count will be the same with either method but it might leave a gap etc. best wishes
Hi Billie, I’ve been struggling to understand the part of the pattern where you knit back and forth but not to the end of the row. This seems to start on row 7 on the instep part of the pattern. Could you walk me through this? Do I leave it on the circular needle and use 1 of the circular needles and one straight needle to go back and forth working those 9 middle stitches? This is not really spelled out in the pattern. Thanks for any help! Jenny
Sorry for late reply, my advice would be to contact the maker see what they suggest. Not sure if it would need the primer solution on it before you marble it to help the paint adhere. Thanks for your question, very sorry for late reply only just found where the comments live.