Things You'll Need:
- Template
- Wool felt
- Pins
- Seamstress's chalk (or washable marker)
- Buttons, snaps or Velcro
- Needle and thread
- Rickrack
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Step 1
TemplateMeasure your child's feet. This is essential for finding a template in the correct size for your child. After you find a template in the size and style you desire, cut out the individual pieces and pin them to the felt you've chosen, leaving at least 1/2 inch of room between each piece. Using your seamstress's chalk or marker, draw an outline on the felt around your pinned pieces that is at least 1/4 inch larger all around.
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Step 2
Cut your felt and remove the patterns and pins. To create your heel seam (this seam will shape the top of your slipper), fold the upper piece in half, and sew along the straight edge.
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Step 3
Pin the top of shoe to the sole of the shoe. With a needle and thread, sew the two pieces together. When you finish stitching, trim your excess felt and turn the felt shoe inside out to hide the seams neatly inside. If you use rickrack, this is where you'll need it. Glue it on the outside or inside rim of the upper as a decorative trim. (Decide which looks better to you, a "pinked" edge peeking from inside the shoe, or a rickrack trim on the outside.)
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Step 4
Choose your method of fastening the shoe. You can use a button, snap or Velcro. If you go the button route, you need to make a button slit on the strap.
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Step 5
From here, use your imagination. Attach a bow or ribbon, jazz up your finished product with cute cut-out felt shapes or stitch your child's name across the top with embroidery floss for a special, one-of-a-kind wool felt slipper for the special child in your life.
