I girded my loins and felted the slippers! Blogging about a problem(ish) got me unstuck, not for the first time.

In their original, unfelted state, the slippers measured 37 cm from heel to toe. A standard wash and centrifuge cycle in the washing machine took them to 28 cm. That was still a bit too large, so I put them back in for a brief 30-minute cycle, which shrunk them by another centimetre or so. Shaping them and putting one half inside the other stretched them out a little bit again, so the end result was back to 28-ish. Maybe a teeny bit too large? Maybe not. It’s too warm to wear them now so I’ll have to see next season.

I was concerned that the inner layer would get bunched up, since it’s the same size as the outer one, but slightly wet felt turned out to be very squishable, and it formed itself very nicely. Or perhaps it was the outer one that stretched to fit the inner one. Either way, no bunching, no wrinkles, very slipper-like shape. Overall, a success.