{"id":21641,"date":"2025-12-29T21:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21641"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T22:07:30","slug":"daily_3953_-_holey_slipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/12\/29\/daily_3953_-_holey_slipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3953 &#8211; holey slipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3953_slipper_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My felted slippers didn&#8217;t even last a year before getting big holes in them. <\/p>\n<p>I could make new ones &#8211; I even have an idea about what I might want to change to make them felt better and last longer &#8211; but that seems wasteful. Instead I bought a needle felting kit and some raw wool to patch them up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never done any needle felting, and with the waxing experiment fresh in my mind, I was leery of the project. It turned out to be super easy and I was done in no time. The first mend was a bit lumpy but the next ones were better, and even the lumpy one evened out after I walked on it for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Buying yarn for a new pair of slippers would absolutely have been cheaper. But I&#8217;ve learned something new, and hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to use this stuff for some other mending project in the future. Or for these same slippers when they get new holes &#8211; the way the yarn has gone shiny on the sole, I can see it&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3953_slipper_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My felted slippers didn&#8217;t even last a year before getting big holes in them. I could make new ones &#8211; I even have an idea about what I might want to change to make them felt better and last longer &#8211; but that seems wasteful. Instead I bought a needle felting kit and some raw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,787,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-mending","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21727,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21641\/revisions\/21727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}