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.

I learned to love flowers from her mother and grandma and great grandma(and who knows how far back it travels from there). For me, flowers are synonymous with happiness—from my Grandpa Hansen’s tulip tree to my grandma’s prized peonies, to cut flowers on the table every month of the year.
Winter in northern Utah’s Cache Valley didn’t mean an end to flowers, it just meant the geraniums came indoors, crowding out windowsills and end tableswhile they waited for the coming of spring.

These flowers are an extension of my love for flowers.

Slippers are super fun to knit. You get to practice stranded two-color knitting, knitting in the round, traditional Norwegian mitten-shaping, and a nifty
crocheted edge. I named them Marte after a multiple-great Grandmother from Norway.

Marte Slippers are included in my Norseknits ebook. There is a little sister version of Marte called Mari.

Sizes
Children’s 10-13
Unfelted slipper: 7.” x 3.66” Felted slipper: 7”x 3.14”

Yarn
Rauma 3 tr. Strikkegarn
Main Color: 50 g 101 Off white or 105 meters of DK-weight yarn)
Contrasting Color: 50 g Blue 125 (or 105 meters of DK-weight yarn)

Needles
Double-pointed needles 3 mm, 3 mm crochet hook (or another size of double-pointed needles to obtain the correct gauge)

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

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

Note: Pay attention to your gauge and use whatever size needle you need to knit 24 stitches and 24 rows for 4 inches. While teaching a class on these slippers, I have seen knitters use needles as small as a US 2 and as large as a US 5.

Skills used in knitting my Marte 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