Tutorial | Simple, Old Fashioned Slippers

(pardon the slipper that's stretched out...)

The weather is finally turning cold in the Bay Area, and a little wet, too (thank goodness!). It's starting to feel like the holiday season, and the nostalgia is bubbling up inside. It was cold this weekend, so we turned on the heater and I started a search for some easy-to-make slippers for my cold toes.

I went to Ravelry, typed in my search, specified that I wanted something knitted with worsted weight yarn, and free. What I saw depended that feeling of nostalgia: slippers that looked like the ones my great-grandma used to make. She would make slippers for the whole family at Christmas, always adding little pom-poms to the girls slippers, or sometimes a crocheted flower. I could almost taste her sugar cookies while I was looking at the pattern photos. She passed when I was seven or eight, and I was so sad when my last pair of slippers wore out - they were a bright, Christmas red with a pom-pom on each one.