Waldhaus part 2

Last week I finished the second pair of my “Das Waldhaus” socks for the friend who took the brillinat pics for the pattern.

In this post I talked about dying the yarn for the socks. After knitting up both versions I prefer the lower socks with the sprinkles. This yarn was dyed using the ball-method.
The upper one is really fun to dye and would look a lot better with different colours then trying to do a gradient one. For a good gradient yarn one would need a lot more skeins and dyes then I used. But I’ll try my hands on that method again for a rainbow or really colourful yarn.

Slippers

Last time my mother visited me she noticed my fresh press felted slippers and instandly liked them. So for he christmas gift this year I knitted and felted her a pair too.

They knit up really fast and look really sloppy and big before felting:

The advent calender next to it is from my mother and the size of a postcard.

But after only one cycle in my front loader the cascade 220 is felted to the right size and I even had to stretch it a bit to fit me.

As my mother didn’t want the strap for the slippers (“too girly”) I needle felted a few swirls onto the front:

It’s good that I have such a huge stash of green yarns and fibres as the love for green seems to be genetic 🙂