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| My latest pair of felted slippers |
Follow this link Felted Slippers for pattern and photo tutorial of these very quick knit slippers. If you have a couple of evenings free you can make a pair before Christmas. There's still time!
So how to pimp the slippers for Christmas? I am sure given more time and thought I could actually knit a Christmas pattern in the slipper design itself but you know what this time of year is like, busy busy busy. So as long as I do not forget this could be a great New Year challenge. If you beat me to it, be kind to me and share please...but onto the quick pimping of the slippers.
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| Knitted and machine wash felted slippers |
Once knitted and felted your slippers will look like this...
So the quickest way to pimp them I found was to embroider a Christmas design.
I used embroidery thread but first outlined my design with a single strand so that it gave me a guideline to follow...
If you look at the photo closely you can see that I also stitched in a single strand a mid line on the leaf. This was my guide to keep my stitches short and so I embroidered either side of the line, look...
If you look at the photo closely you can see that I also stitched in a single strand a mid line on the leaf. This was my guide to keep my stitches short and so I embroidered either side of the line, look...
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| Holly leaf outline including mid line for guide |
Here you can see that I have sewn up to the mid line guide only on one side and I shall do the same on the other.
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| Holly on my slipper |
I decided that I probably could not replicate the identical holly on the second slipper so deliberately placed it in a different orientation on slipper two, hope it works that they do not match, what do you think?
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| Half way through pimping my slippers |
And now they are ready for wearing...
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| Felted and embroidered slippers |
I think I may even try and pimp other slippers for other times of the year too, it was so much fun. and I confess to being a little bit in love with them. John who seldom thinks my makes
are of any worth, probably because they are not sailing related,
even gave a begrudging nod as he walked past me today ;) Can't be all bad then can it!
♥ Cosy toes now ready for Winter,
let me know if you make a pair ♥
