Today I realized why I don’t like felting. Most of the time I’m very careful about NOT felting when I’m handling wool. When I’m washing a fleece I limit the agitation and pay attention to the water temperature. So today when I deliberately put a wool item in a hot bath and then a cold bath repeatedly it just felt wrong.

I knitted a pair of Duffers using two strands yarn to make a bulky weight. I had made these over 10 years ago and found the pattern in a file on my computer. It’s a really clever pattern using only 19 rows. After you knit them up you do all the bad things to wool: wash them in a machine, put them in hot and cold water, agitate them, and put them in a dryer. In the end you’ll have a nifty pair of slippers.

This was suppose to be a travel blog with information about knitting and crafting on the road. We spend most of our time traveling. Last year I went to Joshua Tree for a month, back to Washington State. We went to the South West for spring and early summer then back to Washington State for three weddings including our own. Then Argentina for 3 months which took us to the beginning of 2020. The timing worked out well that we arrived at home just as the stay-at-home order went into place.

Now I’m making slippers. Slippers represent staying home.