5 am comes entirely to early these days. My 3 year old son has such a hard time with mornings. He needs to get up and go potty and have a snack, but can’t do it on his own, or wont, because he’s still so sleepy. What usually ends up happening is he flops around in bed for a half hour or more, kicking, crying, fussing, whining until DH or I get finally get tired of hearing it and get him up. It’s a pattern that is rapidly getting very old.
This morning he’s gone back to sleep on the couch. I guess the Christmas tree lights are soothing and help him fall back to sleep. I’m thinking twice about taking the tree down this weekend. And while he has fallen back into his blissful dreamland, I am fully awake and just waiting for the sun to rise, or the next kid to wake up. Whatever comes first.
While trying to wake myself up and browsing ravelry I stumbled upon a slipper pattern. I realized my own feet at that point my own feet were quite cold and that it would be awesome to have some slippers laying around to slip into right now. I have some, somewhere, but a knitted (or crocheted) pair would feel so nice. And I wouldn’t feel so bad about loosing them if I could just whip up a few more pairs for anyone to wear around the house. The thought reminded me of when I was 12 and spent a month in Germany with my Oma and her family. One of the first things I remember was my Tanta Lena telling me to take my shoes off and put on some of the homemade slippers they had laying around for everyone to use. I think I thought it was cool that they were made by someone and not just store bought, but then I can’t really remember. It had been a 16 hour flight from California to Germany and then another hour from Dusseldorf to Dresden (or somewhere near there) and I had stayed awake for most of that time. My brain was extremely foggy and after the slippers Tanta Lena showed us where we would be sleeping and I passed out for the rest of the day.
So this mornings adventure took my back to Germany in my mind and on a search for a patter that was like Tanta Lena’s slippers. I found a few patterns that looked like I remembered, or close enough to it that I could alter them and hopefully come out with something similar. Here are my three top choices:
“Follow the yellow line” Boots is a crochet pattern that has been translated into english. The pattern looks very simple and easy to alter if needed. I and such a huge fan of double crochets because it makes things go so fast. I’m a knitaholic but crocheting has been taking up more and more of my time these days. Drat those double crochets. I think they are corrupting =P
Granny “Miezie’s” slippers is the next pattern I liked. I’m not posting the picture because there isn’t one of the finished product, but it looks good anyways. I also need to learn german as this one is not translated to english, but does give a diagram and theoretically could be figured out with a little bit of work. It’s knitted, and from what I saw on ravelry it’s made with multiple strands of fingerling weight yarn held together. I like that aspect of it and that when finished it looks very much like the above pattern, just knit.
And then there is this slipper pattern. The whole page is an image so I can’t get it on here. Doesn’t look much like the other patterns but I think it could work, with some altering.
At the moment I am rather overwhelmed with unfinished projects of one kind or another. I have four sweaters, two pairs of mittens and various other projects that are sitting around waiting for me to finish them. Slippers isn’t really a priority right now. But maybe after I finish something I could make a pair. My feet would really appreciate it.
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