Norwegian-inspired slippers are mittens for your feet. Common in Scandinavia,
once you wear them you’ll never go back to bare feet on cold wood floors.
These flowery slippers feature a lazy daisy embroidery stitch my grandma taught her to do on dishcloths when she was a little girl. Those summer days in the Scandinavian community of Providence, Utah were spent snapping beans,
picking raspberries, wading in the irrigation ditch, and doing embroidery to stay out of the hot afternoon sun. The embroidered dishcloths were considered special and were only used to dry drinking glasses.
I named these slippers for my Great Grandma Olsen, a gifted flower gardener whose roses, irises, peonies, and lilacs were as famous as her embroidery. Although in full disclosure, my Grandma Olsen once said of her
handiwork in the local Herald Journal, “My crewel is so bad it’s wicked.” The floral pattern on the front is a nod to Grandma Olsen’s garden and the checkerboard pattern on the back is for Grandpa Olsen, who sailed from
Bergen. The checkerboard comes from Bergen’s famous Fana sweater pattern.

These slippers are included in my Norsknits ebook.

Sizes
Women’s small size 5 to 6.5 and child’s large size 2-4
Unfelted slipper: 9 ”x 4.33” (8.5 “x 4”) Felted slipper: 8.5” x 4.33” (8” x 4”)

Yarn
Raumagarn 3 tr. Strikkegarn
Background Color: 50 g White 101 (or 105 meters of DK-weight yarn)
Pattern Color: 50 g Red 174 (or 105 meters of DK-weight yarn)
Embroidery: Jamieson’s Shetland Spindrift 25 g Sapphire 676
Needles
Double-pointed needles 3 mm, 3 mm crochet hook (or another size
double-pointed needles to obtain the correct gauge), tapestry needle

Gauge
24 stitches/24 rows = 4 inches or 10 centimeters
Lightly felted to 28 stitches/24.4 rows = 4 inches or 10 centimeters

Felted Gauge
Lightly felted 28 stitches = 4 inches or 10 cm

Skills used to my these slippers

Long-tail cast on
Knitting in colorwork
Purling in colorwork
Catching floats
SSK
K2tog
Backward loop
SSPSSO
Knitting flat
Knitting in the round
Crochet edge (single crochet, UK double)
Chart reading