We always associate slippers with coziness and comfort. After all, these are comfortable and sometimes warm indoor shoes, in which it is easy and pleasant to walk around the house. Today, stores offer a wide selection of shoes for the house, both warm and regular, for the hot season. But we will tell you how to sew slippers with your own hands!
Shoes can tell a lot about a person. About how neat you are, whether you follow fashion. Your shoes, sandals, and boots can tell you whether you suffer from diseases of the joints of your legs. But if the shoes we wear to go outside or go to work must meet certain standards, then you can choose any indoor shoes depending on your desires. We offer you several ideas on how to sew slippers with your own hands.
You can make many pairs of slippers for each family member and guests. The slippers can be different, or they can be made in the same style. Homemade slippers can also serve as a gift for a family member or close friend.
How to sew home slippers with your own hands. Instructions
In order to sew home slippers, you will need durable soft material. The material can be old items made of thick knitwear, drape, leather, jeans or fur. Before you start sewing, decide on the model and color, sketch out a sketch and make a pattern. It is very easy to make a pattern based on the shape and size of the foot by placing the foot on a piece of paper and tracing it. For example, if you decide to make homemade slippers from felt, then making them may only take you half an hour.
To start, make a pattern as above, simply trace your foot, placing your foot on a piece of paper. Then, to the resulting drawn foot, draw two rectangles on the right and left, which will serve as a jumper holding the slipper on the foot. Once the pattern is ready, cut it out and place it on a piece of felt. It is enough to make a pattern for one foot, for example, the right one, its reverse part will serve as a pattern for the left foot.
Trace the pattern placed on a piece of felt with a pen and cut it out. Then connect the side parts of the jumper with each other into a ring, and try on the future slipper on your foot. Fix the jumper by adjusting it to the leg and sew. So you have a slipper. You can decorate it as your heart desires. Any decoration is suitable here: buttons, rhinestones, beads, fur.
Fabric slippers can also be made at home. In order not to fantasize with the pattern, you can tear up old slippers that have served their purpose and make a pattern in their likeness. If there are no old slippers in the house, then make a pattern yourself, also tracing your foot placed on a sheet of paper.
What to make the soles of house slippers from?
Stores sell felt insoles with pimples. For the sole, you need to buy these insoles (price 36 rubles and 70 kopecks) and trim them a little along the heel and toe.
Then, using “Moment - 1” glue, place the sole on the sewn or knitted slippers and carefully sew around the “gypsy” needle with thick thread with tight stitches. You will get a beautiful and neat sole.
Advantages of a “bumpy” sole
- Felt breathes well and is washable;
- Durable “pimples” give the product an anti-slip effect;
- The inexpensive material is durable and abrasion-resistant, and the sole looks very decent.
And most importantly, you can make an excellent sole for slippers from it in almost 10 minutes!
If you don't want to use felt insoles as soles, look for another dense material. This can be several layers of thick fabric, leatherette, thick denim. After all, the main load falls on the sole, and if it is too thin, it will quickly fray and wear out. And walking in slippers with thin soles will not be very comfortable.
Today we will sew cozy and very comfortable slippers!
Since it’s already November outside the window and we want our feet to be warm and comfortable, we’ll trim our slippers with artificial (or maybe natural, it’ll be absolutely gorgeous!) fur! It’s not a shame to receive guests in such slippers - they look luxurious, like a boyar! You can sew slippers simply from thick fabric or artificial leather, without additional decor - they will serve you faithfully for a long time.
So, we need:
– cotton jacquard weave fabric for the top of the slippers;
– thick cotton (I have IKEA) wheat-colored for the inner part of the sole;
– thick cotton for edging slippers the color of café au lait (faux leather, which we use for the sole, can also be used for edging; it just didn’t suit the color for me);
– artificial leather for the sole;
– a thick tarpaulin and a piece of thick shoe leather for the inside of the insole;
– synthetic winterizer or any other cushioning material;
– glue web and collar doubler;
– a small piece of double-thread or other dense fabric;
– a piece of suede for the heel;
- artificial fur;
– threads, beads for decoration, scissors;
– “Moment” glue.
I present the pattern separately. You can enlarge this photo to A4 sheet size and trace the template directly from your computer monitor. The inside of the slipper is marked with a cross.
The master class presents a pattern for sizes 38-39, but it can be easily increased or decreased at your discretion.
The sole will be double-layered for greater strength and rigidity.
We cut out the parts of the upper part of the sole: 2 pieces of cotton insole, two pieces of cushioning material, two suede heels, two rectangular pieces of double-thread and two pieces of insole from collar duplerin. We cut out the dublerin parts 1.5 cm smaller around the perimeter so that they do not fall into the seam of the edging and do not add unnecessary thickness to us.
We customize the suede heels with decorative stitching on the insoles, and glue the doublets on the back side.
We assemble a “sandwich” - a cotton piece, a layer of gasket, a double thread. We adjust the insole along the contour, cutting off the excess.
Now we assemble the lower part of the sole in the same way, only instead of double-thread we take a denser tarpaulin, which will give the insole additional strength and thickness.
We cut out a pair of insoles from thick shoe leather, cutting off 1.5-2 cm along the outer edge so that it does not get into the seam of the edging.
We glue this insole to the inside of the sole - that is, this cushioning insole will be between the upper and lower layers of the sole.
Now we collect both layers of the sole and grind them together.
All! Our insoles are ready!
Perhaps this technology for sewing soles is too labor-intensive, and you will say that you can simply take ready-made soles from old slippers, or cork soles, or even reinforce fabric soles with linoleum! Such options, of course, are also quite applicable. But I like just this kind of “layer cake”; I developed its ideal formula through trial and error, while sewing a bunch of slippers as gifts for relatives, friends and acquaintances. The sole is moderately dense and thick (the thickness of the sole is approximately 1 cm), but at the same time soft and pleasant to wear. And very durable.
Now let's start making the upper part of the slippers.
In my stash I found a piece of coupon cotton with a jacquard border around the edge. The color of the fabric is in the traditional colors of Khokhloma painting - red, gold and black (I have dark burgundy). After a long time of twisting and turning the pattern for the upper part of the slipper, I finally decided on the location of the pattern.
We cut out the parts of the upper part of the slipper from two-thread thread (with allowances along the contour of 1.5-2 cm for the base) and from cotton, observing the symmetry of the pattern on the left and right parts of the slippers. Don’t forget to put a cross on all the parts of the upper part of the slipper on the inside of the part, so that later you can correctly assemble the left sole with the left upper part and the right sole with the right upper part.
Let's try on a piece of fur - it should be beautiful!
Sew the halves together. Using an adhesive web, we glue the jacquard piece onto a double-thread base.
Using a template, we mount the upper parts.
Now let's decide on the width of the fur trim. I decided that my fur parts would be 4 cm wide. We trace the upper part of the template for the upper part of the slipper, measure down 4 cm and draw a line parallel to the top.
We cut out the details of the fur edge, be sure to take into account the direction of the pile - from top to bottom. The fur is cut either with a blade or with the very tips of scissors, trying to cut only the knitted base of the fabric and not cut the fur fibers.
We place the fur parts on the upper parts of the jacquard slippers and pin them together. We put a wide and dense zigzag stitch on the sewing machine and sew along the edges of the fur at the top and bottom, while carefully bending the fur fibers from under the stitching.
It's time to decorate our future slippers with beads. I decided to sew on some red and brown beads in a jacquard pattern.
After a couple of hours of meditative sewing of beads, this is what happened.
We chop off the top and facing pieces face to face and grind them down.
We cut the seam allowances in several places and turn the facing to the wrong side, releasing the piping from the top part (fur). I usually add a finishing stitch along the top of the piece. But in this case, we won’t be able to do that because of the fur, so we fasten the top part and the facing with several hand stitches from the wrong side.
We sew the details of the top and facing along the contour. We sew the upper parts to the soles, matching the control marks. The slippers are almost ready - you can try them on!
In order to sew them, you can take a special pattern under the cut for printing on a thermal transfer. Its use greatly simplifies and speeds up the process and reduces to almost zero all possible difficulties and errors when cutting parts.
In addition to the pattern, you will need light felt for transferring the transfer, any suitable (I only had white today) felt for the insole and, my main inspiration for this week, a cork sheet. In this case, 3 mm thick. Well, glue, I liked using “Moment Crystal” the most. 
First of all, let's transfer the pattern to felt. Due to the fact that recently I have been asked more questions about translation technology, I will allow myself to say a little more about it today.
First, we will need to place the pattern with the front side in the felt and heat the iron to almost maximum temperature. Using a hot iron, we begin to carefully iron the sheet, not missing the edges or corners. 
In my opinion, it is better to overheat the iron somewhat and, while ironing, notice that the felt has begun to melt (this is not an instantaneous process and you will always have time to slightly reduce the heat, nothing bad will happen), than to iron everything with a cold iron and get a fragmentary translated image, the more thereby ruining both the pattern and the felt. 
We stroke the entire structure for about a minute, then cool it to a slightly warm state and remove the top checkered layer of paper. The picture has been translated. 
Cut out the details of the slippers without seam allowances. 
Since I made the pattern as universal as possible, I adhered to the principle “more is better than less.” Therefore, at this stage of work, I recommend trying it on at least approximately and if it turns out to be larger than necessary, trim it lateral sides as shown in the photo. As a rule, there is no need to reduce the size of the top and bottom, only if these are slippers for a baby. 
Place the patterns for both slippers on a sheet of felt. You don’t have to take white anymore, you can use any color. 
And we attach the parts with a semicircular seam. Only along the top edge. 
Now we cut out the details along the contour, getting a double top for future slippers. 
Now we need a pattern for the insole. It's very easy to get. It is enough to simply trace your foot on a piece of paper with a decent margin, or simply take any ready-made slippers that you consider the most comfortable and trace the sole with them. 
We only outline the insole, but do not cut it out. I found it more convenient to sew in this order.
Now we baste the double top of the slipper. We baste in two approaches, starting each of them from the middle of the sock. 
It will be very easy to stitch the top using sour cream. After machine stitching, you can pull out the basting thread. 
Now the slippers with the insole can be cut out, retreating 2-3 mm from the edge of the stitching. We do the same with the second slipper. 
Now it's time to begin the final stage. We will make the soles for slippers. After various searches for suitable material, I settled on cork. As practice has shown, this is a fairly easy-to-use material, very light. It is very practical to wear, especially in the glued version. Cork has good shock-absorbing properties and even a thin layer is sufficient to make the slippers comfortable to use.
Take the glue and properly lubricate the bottom surface of the felt insole. The glue, among other things, perfectly stabilizes the cork, reducing its fragility and preventing the possibility of cracks appearing when bent in the future. 
Glue the insole to the cork sheet. We cut it out quite roughly, just to be able to install the clips. 
The cork glues well and quickly, after the glue has firmly set, you can remove the clips and cut out the slippers along the contour of the insole. 
You can stop at this stage of work or additionally sew the perimeter of the slipper on a sewing machine. The cork is very easy to sew, despite its thickness. 
That's all, the slippers are ready. In the next photo I tried to demonstrate that cork glued to felt is quite strong when bending. 
The slippers turned out like this: 
House slippers are a great gift! Handmade with warmth and love, they will warm the feet of you and your loved ones!
I sewed these indoor slippers for all my family and friends. I’ve already made about fifty slippers! I determined the dimensions experimentally, but it’s better to check before cutting.
Step 1. Cut out the details.
Details of the upper part of the slipper:
- On the left in the photo there are 2 parts - this is the very top, it can be cut out of some beautiful fabric, not necessarily very durable. I usually cut from faux fur (old fur coats are used!)
- The 2 central parts are the lining, it serves for warmth. I usually cut it out of thin batting, the kind sold in hardware stores; they also use it to wash the floor.
- On the right in the photo are the details that need to be cut out of fabric that will be pleasant to the body.
All details are cut out the same way.
Details of the bottom of the slipper (sole):
- On the left in the photo is the outer part of the sole, it needs to be cut out of thick, very durable fabric, I cut it out of felt. From the same fabric I cut out heels.
- The 2 central parts are the lining, it serves for warmth and softness. I also cut it out of thin batting.
- On the right in the photo is the inner part of the sole. It needs to be cut out of fabric that will be both pleasant to the body and at the same time very durable. This part begins to wear out very first, especially under the heel.
Don't forget to cut out the pieces for the left and right legs.
Also for sewing you need to cut out strips of elastic fabric 3 cm wide. It is advisable to use synthetic fabric for this, it is stronger.
Step 2. Pin together the top parts.
Step 3. We sew a line from the wrong side, thereby fastening all 3 parts.
Step 4. If the top part is made of faux fur, then you need to cut off the excess fur along the edge. Cut it boldly, don’t be afraid, the fur along the edge will still get in the way. You can also cut off the excess lining and, in general, trim the entire part.
This photo shows the piece trimmed (left) and uncut (right).
Step 5. Now we take a strip of elastic fabric, place it with the right side on the front side of the part to the inner edge and sew it on.
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Step 6. Turn the strip to the wrong side and sew with a “Multiple Zigzag” stitch (knitted stitch).
Stitch type:
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View from the back side:
Step 7. From the wrong side, cut off the excess strip close to the stitching.
View of the upper part of the slipper from the wrong side:
Step 8. Place the inner part of the sole on the wrong side of our part, face down, aligning the central marks (indicated in blue in the photo). We pin it with a pin.
Step 9. Align the side marks and also pin.
Step 10. Now you need to sweep away the parts.
Step 11. We sew a line with wrong side, thereby fastening the sole and the upper part.
Step 12. Now take the strips of fabric again and place them right side on the front side of the slipper. The beginning of the strip must be folded (see photo).
Let's add a line:
End of line:
General form:
Step 13. Turn the strip onto the wrong side of the slipper and sew a “Multiple Zigzag” stitch. The slipper blank is ready.
Everyone has their own idea of comfort, but there is one element that, like nothing else, reminds of the warmth and comfort of home. These are slippers. Graceful, wide, fluffy, felt, knitted - everyone has their own, but definitely their favorite ones. How to sew slippers with your own hands? Is it difficult to make patterns? We will devote our article to the answers to these questions.
Slippers are important!
Shoes, boots, boots - these are shoes that we select more according to aesthetic parameters, sacrificing comfort to them. But slippers should, first of all, be comfortable. But this does not mean that they will be ugly. Especially if you take advantage of our master class on creating patterns, using which even beginners can sew slippers with their own hands.
First, let's decide on the materials from which these shoes can be made. The sole is usually made from:
- skin;
- split leather (natural leather without top layer);
- substitute.
But it is equally important to choose the material for the insoles. It could be:
- rough cloth;
- suede leather;
- split
Between the sole and the insole for strength, place your choice of:
- thin padding polyester;
- batting;
- cardboard;
- foam rubber
By adding these elements to the model, you will ensure that your slippers last longer. So, we’ve decided on the technical aspects - it’s time to add an original design idea to them.
4 cozy slipper patterns
Experienced craftswomen claim that it is better to start your own production of exclusive house shoes with felt models. This is an easy-to-grip material, and if somewhere a cut or seam is not quite straight, after the first try on the slippers will take the shape of the foot, so the flaw will not be noticeable.
Patterns designed for sewing slippers for adults from felt with your own hands are distinguished by one important feature: they do not require allowances, since the material tends to “adapt” to the shape of the foot. These models are usually sewn without a sole seal.
Materials:
- a sheet of thin cardboard;
- pencil;
- a piece of soap;
- a piece of felt;
- threads, needle;
- scissors;
- decorative elements (beads, rhinestones, etc.).
Instructions:
If you like closed house shoes, then fleece slippers are what you need. True, in this case, to create a pattern, just tracing the leg is not enough; measurements are necessary.
Materials:
- paper;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- tape measure;
- tailor's chalk;
- a piece of fleece;
- threads, needle;
- sewing machine (you can do without it).
Instructions:
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Fur animals
Animal slipper models have gained particular popularity. At first glance, it may seem that the patterns needed to sew fur slippers with your own hands will be complex. However, this is absolutely not true.
Materials:
- thin cardboard;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- threads, needle;
- a piece of leather or leatherette for the sole;
- thin foam for padding;
- pieces of fur;
- decorative elements (beads, pieces of colored leather).
Instructions:
- We outline the foot on cardboard, cut it out - the sole is ready.
- Cut out the top. To do this, draw a rectangle in which the long side is equal to the length of the foot.
- On the left side of the long side we set aside a segment equal to the desired depth of the slippers.
- On the right side on the short side below we mark the height of the heel.
- We connect these marks with two parallel smooth lines.
- We cut out two mirror pairs of leather sole blanks, leaving a 1 cm allowance around the entire perimeter.
- We make one sole at a time from thin foam rubber, but without “excess”.
- Using the pattern, we cut out 2 mirror pairs of the tops of the slippers.
- We sew the details.
- We decorate depending on the chosen model. For a dog, for example, we use pieces of fur to make ears, use beads to represent eyes, and pieces of skin to show the nose and mouth.
You can continue the theme of funny animals with a pattern of slippers-boots with bunny ears.
Materials:
- thin cardboard, pencil;
- scissors;
- fleece or thick knitwear;
- felt or leather for the sole;
- thread, needle.
Instructions:
