Entry: Take one pile of floofy stuff... Thursday, April 13, 2006



I'm cold!

This godforsaken icebox of a town had a bit of a cold snap last week, and I've been (brrrrr) cold. Cold cold cold! So I started making some thrummed slippers.

I didn't know it was thrumming, until the lovely Penny pointed it out to me, but I knew what it was and how to do it.

Take one pile of soft and yummy floofy goodness...

...torn into thin strips. It's roving, or tops, or whatever the hell you wanna call it. Today, it's floof. (Rhymes with roof)

Start knitting the floof, just like yarn (demonstrated here by my... err... beautiful assistant)

(look at that technique!) LOL

Then you get a lovely thick knitted fabric like this:

Now you get tiny bits of floof...

...and add them in to your knitting.

(shown here with white so you can see what's going on if you've not seen this before)

Thus it begins.

I will add more photos to bamboozle your dialup later on!

But are my feet warm yet??? *sigh*... no... but maybe soon. Hm!

   9 comments

Name
May 8, 2006   09:47 AM PDT
 
Lovely!
Emma
April 23, 2006   09:44 PM PDT
 
Fluffy feet! To go with warm ears ;)!
Jejune
April 21, 2006   08:34 PM PDT
 
Hmmm - I KNOW I posted a comment on this ages ago, but it isn't there... anyway, love the floof, and looking forward to seeing the finished toasty warm slippers :) You definitely need them in Canberra!
Catherine
April 17, 2006   11:31 PM PDT
 
So.....

Anything you want to tell us about moving again?

Or are you claiming that Cyclone Monica (in Far North Qld) has no connection to you???

Can't see any resemblance, myself :D :D

Lotsa love,
happy spider
April 16, 2006   08:22 PM PDT
 
you've nearly got him! and nice to see you flash your floof :)
Cynthia
April 16, 2006   02:32 PM PDT
 
Oooh - looks soft and fluffy - mmm! And he looks quite tolerant :]
Taphophile
April 15, 2006   08:25 AM PDT
 
Saw thrumming on someone's blog recently and it looked lovely. Toe tickling good, in fact.

Taph posting in from Sydney where it was a balmy 29 deg yesterday - just saying. ;)
Anjelle
April 14, 2006   08:52 AM PDT
 
Yay for floof!
Adele
April 13, 2006   10:43 AM PDT
 
Phwoar, fluffy slippers!!

He's holding knitting needles - doesn't he know that it's the top of a very slippery slope? Mwa ha haaa!

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