Knitting Level 3: Felted Slippers

 

Keep your feet cozy with a pair of felted slippers. In this class, you will be making the Sailor Slippers.

Students are required to purchase their own yarn, needles, pattern, and notions. Students get a 15% discount on materials purchased for their class.

Run time

4 sessions x 2 hours. 

Project

Sailor Slippers by Annie Germain.

Skills Taught

• Stripes
• Seaming
• Grafting
• Applied i-cord
• Pick up stitches
  
• Pattern interpretation and common abbreviations
• Fix common mistakes
• Felt in a washing machine (to be completed at home)
• Knit with doubled yarn (if using worsted weight)

Skills Required

• Cast on and bind off
• Knit and purl
• Increase (M1R and M1L)
• Decrease (K2tog, p2tog, and SSK)
• Experience following a pattern
• How to pick up a dropped stitch

Materials Provided

• Swatching and Blocking Guide

Supplies to Purchase

• Sailor Slippers by Annie Germain. Pattern available on Ravelry.
• 100% non-superwash wool. Worsted weight, held doubled: 504-710 m (Suggested: Berroco Lanas) OR  Super Bulky, held singly: 230-355 m (Suggested: Drops Snow). The amount of yarn used will depend on what size you make.
  
• 8 mm (US 11) needles
• 8 mm (US 11) DPNS (optional)
• Locking stitch markers
• Measuring tape
• Tapestry needle
  

Photos © Annie Germain