shoes and random flickr: Good for your children

This weekend wasn’t as productive as my last one, but I did manage to finish these shoes. It took three tries to get the first one right. It was one of those times when I had something in my head and it wasn’t coming out that way and the new result wasn’t very appealing either. I finally got it close to what I had imagined - a simple, somewhat rustic looking shoe, w/ the thick/thin yarn adding texture. I think the problem was in using this yarn in something so small. The imperfections are magnified and the shoe kept coming out all wonky. More wonky than I wanted. In the end I adjusted my tension stitch by stitch to compensate for the extreme gauge changes.

I have a thing for baby shoes. They are just so cute in a useless sort of way. I have experimented with wool felt, but seem to always gravitate back to knit ones. They are so fun to make. Catarina makes the most amazing sewn baby shoes.
Source: uniform-studio.com