Interesting and practical slippers with felt sole crochet

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

One of the most common shortcomings of knitted indoor slippers is the rapid wear of the sole. Regardless of what kind of coating the floors in the house are equipped with, after a month or two, wiped areas appear. As a result, the sole has to be changed or get rid of slippers altogether. Slippers with felt soles are a great way out. They are quite easy to crochet, you just need to find the right materials.

What to use for soles

Simple felt insoles work well as a solid base for indoor shoes. You can buy them almost anywhere, especially in winter.

Another option is to buy some felt and cut the right size sole out of it. This method is convenient if you need to make several pairs at once, since the cost of buying a sheet of felt exceeds the cost of insoles.

Fixing slippers to soles

Some craftswomen prefer to cut volumework for yourself and to impose slippers directly on the sole. To do this, holes should be made in the felt. This is best done with a leatherworking device. Sometimes an awl helps, but these holes are not large enough.

You need to choose the appropriate diameter of the holes and make them at a distance of one or one and a half centimeters from each other. This distance depends on the thickness of the yarn used: the thinner it is, the closer the holes should be.

If there is no special device, you can get out of the situation by running a buttonhole along the edge of the sole (in this case, the first row will consist of single crochets knitted into arches formed by a buttonhole).

At the next stage, you should proceed directly to the manufacture of the main fabric of the product. Crochet felt-soled slippers begin to knit from "bushes" of 3-5 double crochets. The base of each "bush" is a hole made. A different number of columns may be required, the thicker the thread, the less they will be.

When the first row is finished, you can move on to the next step.

Slippers sides

Further, knitting should be continued evenly, without additions or cuts. The optimal height of the canvas is four centimeters. The color of the yarn doesn't matter, but the pattern does. For the sides of slippers, only tight knitting is suitable. Otherwise, the fingers resting on the toe will deform the crocheted slippers. There is no scheme as such, the work is circularin rows with simple single crochet or double crochet.

Crochet Felt Sole Slippers: Toe Shaping

The photo above shows how to start knitting the upper part of the toe of the slippers. In the first row, 4 columns are performed in the center of the toe, then the number of columns is increased by one on each side in each row. The work goes in straight and reverse rows, with the simultaneous attachment of this fabric to the sides of the slippers.

Thus, each row increases the number of columns by two. When the length of the sock becomes 10 cm, work should be stopped. The depth of the product can be made more or less than the specified size. The height of the sock is determined by the fitting.

Semi-round slipper toe

An interesting way to decorate slippers with felt soles, crocheted, is to make a semicircular sock. This piece is knitted separately and then sewn in place.

In fact, any ornament can be the basis for such a sock. The main condition can be called the absence of large holes, as this will reduce the level of comfort of the product. A floral motif or just an openwork semicircle will decorate crocheted slippers. Fragment schemes can be derived from round motif schemes.

Completion of work: the formation of pagolenka

The upper part of the slippers is also knitted in circular rows. The first row always consists of single crochets, then you can apply some kind of pattern.

Columns of the firstrows of pagolenka run along the last row of the side of the slippers, as well as along the open side of the toe. Having closed the circular row, you should knit exactly without additions.

The height of the pagolenka is determined only by the personal choice of the craftswoman or the person who will wear crocheted slippers. You can use absolutely any schemes and description of the pattern for the pagolenka.

However, it is worth considering that short slippers are easier and faster to put on, they are more comfortable than high ones, and their backs do not get trampled on. On the other hand, the long leg is significantly warmer.

As an alternative to the described method, you can tie the slippers in any convenient way, then fix the felt on the made sole and sew it tightly. This will make slippers with knitted insoles and felt soles.

Crochet slippers for children are knitted in much the same way as for adults, only the proportions are reduced and more colorful colors are chosen.