Some crocheters experience a stage in their crocheting life wherein they see something cute and they want to make a crochet version of it. Even though the crochet version would just be that. ‘cute’ but may be utterly useless or if not, impractical to use.

This is what my fiancee pointed to me this morning when I was trying to assemble pieces of what should be ‘baby slippers’. I had this idea while playing with his niece yesterday. See, I made moccasins for this little girl that was meant to be for Christmas of last year, but were not able to deliver the presents. It has just been two months since, and the shoes do not fit already. My, my.. babies grow fast. One of her slippers were lying around and I picked it up just to compare the size, it’s like comparing a grape seed to the fruit itself hahaha…

And so, while sitting on the floor with baby already asleep on the bed, I started crocheting. For some reason, when I just don’t have anything else to do or I don’t want to do anything else (In this case, it’s the latter) I crochet.

I remembered my friend, peach reminding me to start writing the stitches as I go on with crocheting so I could share the pattern later on, (If someone happens to like what I was able to do) And so I got a pen and a notebook and started crocheting (and writing) .

I was a bit afraid to post this one coz I got this feeling that it would be on the What Not to Crochet Blog .. Hehe. If you make slippers like this, there’s just two possible outcome. Either these  slippers would be worn out as soon as your baby stepped out of the house. (well you could let your baby just stay indoors to save the slippers from getting ruined) Then your baby might slipped, because the footwear was basically made of soft material and there’s little friction between tiled floors and cotton yarn.
Anyway. Much with the introduction. Here’s my first baby slippers, The design made it look like an outdoor-kind-of footwear.

The sole and strings are made with Brown cotton yarn (bedspread weight) and the top is made of 90% wool, handfelted. I plan to give the pattern away for people who would buy the wool yarn from my shop. So hopefully, someone would be interested.

Here is the top view of the slippers. It has draw strings to wrap around the ankle for more security.

Baby Slippers

A closer view. Has the top sole been felted properly? Hopefully.

I try to always make a textured sole for slippers and shoes i make, to hopefully add a little more friction to the floor and the footwear. Hopefully later i could find a way to add rubbery texture on the soles so it would be more practical for the wearer.

Textured bottom sole

Side note on felting. The procedure went much easier with colored wool. The garment felted immediately with just few scrubbing and agitation. It made me happy this morning you know? Progressing a little bit with felting.