What a Life!

Well, I completed the Padded Footlet this weekend and began the second one in the pair. Here is Padded Footlet #1 from the side:

I’m about half way through the second one, and it is going much better. I haven’t gotten the knitting so tight when knitting the sole, though I can’t say I feel much of a difference in the knitted fabric.

Steve’s comment when I complained about it not feeling “padded” enough was that he didn’t understand how I was thinking I was going to make something “padded” out of “thread.” He does have a point – sock yarn is quite fine.

I did have an idea for how I can do the toe differently so that it will last longer and won’t look so messy. I will just do the whole area with the decreases with two strands and be done with it. If I do that, I would have to rip out the toe on the first on and re-do it in order for them to be alike. However, depending on how this one comes out, since I am doing my decreases at even intervals (unlike the first one) and I have kept my tension at a better level (unlike the first one), I’m thinking I may just knit a third one and forget about the first one. It’s looking like I should have enough yarn, and I would much rather knit one correctly with “virgin” yarn than to re-use yarn that’s already been used up once. We’ll see how tired I am of this project once I get the second one finished.

In the meantime, this project is going to be on hold because I get to test a new pattern for Theresa at Little Turtle Knits. The new pattern is for a soaker like Ben already wears but it has an elastic waist instead of a drawstring and a little bit different way of doing the crotch area. I shared with her my design idea for making soakers fit children with buddah bellies, and she thought it was “brilliant”! So it may be appearing in one of the new patterns. I would far rather have her benefit from it than to keep it to myself, and I own most of the patterns on the market and I have yet to see anything else like it.