Felt wool slipper

Just after Christmas, Sharon showed her grandson, Colby, and her son-in-law, Daniel, how to make their own wet felted slippers.

With some basic sewing skills and a few pieces of felt, you can easily make a pair of felt slippers to wear around the home. You can make them out of wet felt, an accidentally felted sweater, or commercial felt (I'd suggest wool felt) that you may choose to embellish with needle felting. I've also i

Felted Slipper Free Knitting Pattern

Wet Felted Slippers: Custom fitted slippers for the whole familyFelted wool is an amazing medium to work in. It's fluffy and squishy and very forgiving, unlike fabric.This method is called resist felting because we're putting wool around something the wool resists stick…

For your lovely knitted and felted wool slippers you'll need:Felting wool , for UK shoe size 6 you'll need around 200g. I used Wash+Filz it! from Schachenmayr.double pointed needles (dpns), 8mm washing machine How to knit your wool slippers:1. Cast on 36 stitches and start by knitting stockinette stitch for 35 rows. This is the heel end of your slipper.You can use 2 of your dpns for this. If you find that there are too many stitches for the length of your needles you can use 8mm straight…

Stylist Rachel O'Brien heads to the Fluff-a-torium in Dorking and learns how to make felt slippers with felt guru Gillian Harris

I like to use leather soles on felted slippers. Soles extend the life of the slippers and give feet added protection. They also give a little extra grip - though from personal experience I can tell you they still slide pretty good on wet wood laminate flooring! I'm going to talk a little bit first about materials etc. and finish up with MY technique for sewing soles on by hand. I choose to keep my slippers `all natural` by using leather - this is important to me. If you are not worried about…

For your lovely knitted and felted wool slippers you'll need:Felting wool , for UK shoe size 6 you'll need around 200g. I used Wash+Filz it! from Schachenmayr.double pointed needles (dpns), 8mm washing machine How to knit your wool slippers:1. Cast on 36 stitches and start by knitting stockinette stitch for 35 rows. This is the heel end of your slipper.You can use 2 of your dpns for this. If you find that there are too many stitches for the length of your needles you can use 8mm straight…

One of the favourite gifts that I have been making for family members the last few years are Fibre Trends felted slipper clogs. This year, since I'm enjoying chopping up felted sweaters so much, I decided to try making some slippers from the sweaters. I found this pattern and knew it was a must try so yesterday I made a pair. The instructions on that link are very clear and I was able to easily put together these slippers even though crocheting isn't my strong point. I like them so much that…