twinkletoes

Leah finished knitting her own ballet-like slippers yesterday. They're the Twinkletoes pattern from Knitty, made with Rowan's "soft baby" yarn. This project represents a turning point for this 8-year-old knitter, as it was here that she learned to read a pattern on her own and figure out new stitches and techniques based on written descriptions and video, such as at KnittingHelp.com. She managed to learn provisional cast-on, wrap & turn, left- and right-leaning lifted increase, cable cast-on, decrease bind off, and p2tog tbl! There are some spots where she has a loose stitch or didn't quite catch the wrap when she needed to knit a stitch with its w&t wrap, and the laces on one are quite a bit shorter than the other (she loosened up the cable cast-on for the 2nd slipper to make it easier to work and also to make the laces longer), but she learned lots along the way and is tickled pink by these pink twinkletoes.