Melva slippers by Jennifer Callahan

Melva slippers

Knitting
December 2014
DK (11 wpi) ?
16 stitches = 4 inches
in unblocked garter stitch
US 8 - 5.0 mm
230 - 241 yards (210 - 220 m)
Child to adult
English Spanish
This pattern is available as a free Ravelry download

This is a pattern to make the slippers that my grandma - Melva Peterson - made for all her grandchildren.

We have changed the omnipresent acrylic of the 60s-70s for a snuggly, warm alpaca, but we’ve kept all the love my grandma put into them♥ ♥

Materials
KnitWise by All you Knit is Love (220m/100g): 1 hank each of 2 different colors (in the photo 00-Allium and 05-Avellana)

5mm needles

Tapestry needle

Gauge
16 sts = 10cm in unblocked garter stitch

Glossary
k = knit
p = purl
k2tog= knit 2 stitches together