Cabled Ballet Flat Slippers

Okey (sorry, I've been reading a lot of Raymond Chandler novels lately - so okey is definitely the way it is spelled at the moment)

Well, that was a total aside, so let's just start fresh.

Okey... I got it in my head that I was going to make Christmas gifts for my sisters and mom - sort of.  Not their whole gift - just a little something to go with what I am getting them for Christmas (but I don't know what that is yet... lol).  Then I had this really adorable Cabled Ballet Flat Slipper Pattern in my queue on Ravelry.  My head thought that these two sentences were made for each other and I got excited, bought some yarn, and cast on.  Nice going genius.

So, now that I'm just about done pair number one (of three! good god) I have some questions.

Question #1 - who makes slippers out of fingering weight yarn?  Are they masochistic?
Question #2 - who makes CABLED SLIPPERS out of FINGERING WEIGHT YARN?
Question #3 - who makes cabled slippers out of fingering weight yarn that are in 4 different pieces that you have to sew together????
Question #4 - why did I think this was a good idea??????????

Okey, now that I'm done questioning everything.  They're super super cute!  But I've been at it for about a month (a month with a lot of travel involved - so plenty of time to work on them) and I am JUST finishing my first pair.  Good grief!

Cute!  Slipper Top

Blocking the bits

Of course, being who I am, I've been making slight edits to the pattern as I go.  I hate seaming and there was a seam at the back of the upper part of the slipper that I thought was stupid since I could just pick up the stitches and work from there.  Well, I "forgot" that the pattern is not written to be worked in the round, mostly because up until the point I am at, it hasn't mattered.  I haven't BEEN working in the round - but now I'm picking up stitches around the foot opening and making the edges all pretty like.  So, I just worked it like the pattern said to.  oops.  Oh well, it said to knit, so I was supposed to have a nice garter edge but I have a stockinette edge.  I just don't care that much to go back and fix it.  I did however, start casting-off and find that my beautiful edge started rolling and that I did care about so now I'm casting off knitwise in the round on the WS.  lol... this is awesome.

I am hoping these slippers turn out amazingly because they have been a lot of work.