Yarnification

While I was recovering from the oral surgery (once I was feeling up to it, that is), I did a bunch of work on the beaded shawl, and I finished these up:

They’re Marlo’s ribbed slippers, done in my leftover Sugar ’n’ Cream cotton (cornflower blue). They’re pretty cozy. I usually do this pattern with an I hook (I have two or three pairs besides these ones—they’re my favorite slipper pattern), but since I was using cotton and it doesn’t have as much give, I went up to a J hook and then left one row out of the rounds before the ankle and one row out of the rows after the ankle (but before the heel decrease), and they fit great.

Yes, my desk is that messy, and yes, I am wearing those raggedy jeans at work. They’re only that raggedy at the ankles, though, and it has to do with a possibly inadvisable vow not to buy more jeans until I can fit into a size 10. (I’m in a 12 now.) The “possibly inadvisable” part comes from the fact that I haven’t worked out in quite a while. I really need to start up again, though, because my muscles have become all mushy and I’m having back trouble again, which is a sure sign that I need more exercise.

I’m making progress on the beaded shawl. The end was even in sight last night until I noticed I’d made a mistake about five rows back, and it wasn’t one of those teeny tiny mistakes that nobody but me would ever notice—it was a big ’un. So I frogged back those five rows and then got ready for bed because I was too tired to face redoing all that. Still, not long now.