Fall is in the air and the chipmunks are squirreling away their harvest from my yard—each acorn carefully stacked and ready to comfort and nourish in the cold months ahead. The seed stitch on these slippers reminds me of these piles of acorns, and you’ll never lose your slippers if you hang them from their stems (the little I-Cord loop on the cuff).

A quick note about the yarn: I like options. I’ve been knitting for 25 years and designing (at first for myself and then for my knitting students) for the past 15 years. (You can thank my students and the manager at my LYS for encouraging me to take a leap and put my work out there.) It’s a VERY rare knitter without a stash. So while I designed this pattern in collaboration with my local yarn shop, Yarns By Design in Oakmont, PA, to use a special yarn custom dyed for them by Flower Hill Fleeces, I encourage you use what you have in your stash -- fingering, DK, or Aran weight. All you have to do is change how many strands you hold together, and you have a perfect stash-busting project.

DK weight yarn is held double, sock/fingering weight yarn is held quadruple (challenging, but doable), heavy worsted/Aran weight can be used single.

I hope you follow me on this new little adventure of mine. You can see what I’m up to on Instagram under #knitwithness.

Happy knitting!
Vanessa

ERRATA!
On the toe:
Round 1 and all odd rounds: SEED stitch around