Around the same time I discovered Craftsy and signed up for a couple classes. One of these was Adventures in Double Knitting, taught by Alasdair Post-Quinn. I reread the pattern and figured out how to adapt it. There may be other ways but I came up with something I think will work. I haven't gotten to the short rows yet though.
I knit my swatch with size 0 needles and still didn't get down to gauge, which is unusual because I generally knit tightly and need to use needles 1-2 sizes larger than a pattern calls for. These are my swatches:
There are a few mistakes but whatever. One thing was that I cast on with the lighter blue instead of the darker. Fun to not care, because it's a swatch! On the real slipper I am knitting now, I am dropping stitches back and picking up again to fix mistakes. I am insane.
I don't know if my adaptation would work for anyone else. My sun & stars has large feet and the L in the pattern would be too small for him. I am able to use the size S instructions for the stitch count, and something bigger than size L for the row count.
To do double knitting for this project, I started knitting flat for the leg opening and will seam up the back (the cast on edge, folded double) at the end. This is the progress through the first pattern repeat:
I have gotten to the point where I have joined into a round and started the center panel. The cast on is interesting, I may post a video of it when I do the second slipper.
At some point I will come back and add in more detail about how I am doing this, if I have the time. I need to keep knitting though. My fantasy was for these to be a birthday present but I don't know that the first one will be done by Feb 10. One slipper is not so useful of a gift.
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ETA: Both slippers have been completed. Really fiddly work but worth it in the end.
I kind of want a pair now, with different colors and a different chart (just to avoid boredom), but it is not high on the priority list.
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