How to tie your own slippers?

What does the house associate with? With a cosiness, a feeling that someone is waiting for you, your favorite home things. One of such things, as a rule, are home slippers. Here only those copies that are offered to us by various supermarkets and specialized shoes shops are far from perfect in terms of aesthetics and originality. Try making your own slippers, and you will surely feel the difference!

What kinds of slippers can I make myself?

In fact, the options for how to make home slippers with their own hands, a great many! Just imagine how they should look, and what qualities to enjoy.

1. Knitted slippers, or tracks. They are warm, soft and unusually cozy. In addition, you can choose the right color scheme and thread for knitting.
2. Slippers made of fur. They are more like ugly, but very warm and comfortable.
3. Slippers based on the shop soles. Here fantasy is not limited to materials and colors.

How to tie crochet slippers

Do you know how to knit? Let's try to make your own slippers yourself. For this we will need: a leather or thick fabric on the insole and soles, thick threads, a hook suitable for the size, scissors and beads or ribbons for decoration.

First, we need to determine the size of the proposed product. Take summer shoes or old slippers that fit comfortably on the foot, and circle the sole on paper. This is our slipper sample. Tie the crochet or knitting needles along the ready-made pattern to the sole. Hook this is much easier, since you can easily adjust the narrowing and expansion of the product.

Secondly, by a column without a crochet, tie the sole along the edge so that this row and all the subsequent ones are located at an angle of 90 degrees to the sole. Tie up in height until, when fitting you will not be comfortable slipper depth. Usually this is four to five centimeters.

Next, you need to link the part that will be placed above your fingers. This part will be irregular in shape: straight on one side, and semicircular on the other. Its size is determined individually, based on how wide the leg is, or simply because of the desire to get comfortable shoes.

How to decorate home slippers?

We connect all the details, and now the fun begins - the slippers need to be decorated. What will you get? Slippers home cool or romantic, in ethnic style or reminiscent of village bast shoes? Give vent to your imagination!

If you are a romantic person, you can make flowers from ribbons or braids, and then sew the resulting roses and leaves in random order or according to the chosen pattern. And you can extend the slippers with ribbons. This direction of needlework is very actively gaining in its ranks more and more new fans. The result looks very impressive, and the process takes only a few minutes!

If the house has trimmed skin, then you can decorate our slippers like Indian moccasins with leather flowers or stripes. Look for the right motives - and you can experiment!

You can embroider slippers with beads, coins, or simply embroider flowers from thick threads. And if there is a desire, then you can sew ears from a fabric, embroider a muzzle - and you will have a cool hare or a sad dog ...

It all depends on your mood for the moment. That's what house slippers are good for. With your own hands, you can make any decorations for them and give them a unique color and extravagance!