The Heathen Housewife

This is the second post today, and I’m afraid probably not the last. One of my goals with the blog is to stop posting such huge catch-ups and, especially for the knitting content, keep each post to one subject at a time. Ravelry has been a good motivator for this, since I’d like to start linking my posts to my projects in there. So here we have a post wrapping up the Joe’s Felted Clogs 2008 project.

I finished the second, smaller pair, and then ran them through the washer about ten times, with a little hand-scrubbing in between. I had bought some leather soles, so then it was time to sew them on. This is the most hateful part of this project to me. I don’t like to sew – I like to knit. But after an initial learning curve, it went much faster and less painfully than expected. The biggest thing I figured out was to put the pins holding the sole in place horizontally as shown in the picture versus vertically. They stayed in much better and poked me a lot less.

Obviously, my blanket stitch leaves a little to be desired. But from a distance, it looks good enough.

And the finished product looks pretty darn good, if I do say so!

Oh, and a little funny side note – I am not that great of a photographer by any means, but the hardest part of getting a little snapshot taken on this particular day was clearing enough counter space for a clutter-free shot.

The final step was saying goodbye to the old ratty slippers. They were literally falling apart – see the seam that was worn through?

The old soles were worn through the bottom…

Buh-Bye!

I put the new clogs where Joe had left the old ones when he left that morning.

I heard a happy Oh! when he walked in the back door, and then he came into the office room to say hello with them on.

Happy husband = worth the effort.

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