If anyone wants to restart on knitting, I recently did some slippers with the new felting yarns. I'm getting fast at knitting, a sock a day, but even I was quite astonished as I finished one of the slippers after half an hour. I just did them like socks with a really short shaft. It looked enormous, you have to do them too large by one half, but it came out of the washing mashine with a perfect fit. Some liquid rubber for the soles, some glass beads for decoration and my sister was flabberghasted unwrapping her birthday present. I told her I did them myself, but she didn't believe me at first.
If you can't do socks, there's instructions on the net either to learn it or do it a different way...