Currently have become fashionable handmade things - clothes, shoes, accessories and more. In the house handmade-creations create an atmosphere of comfort, here they are like anywhere by the way. Home shoes made by caring craftsmen, will be comfortable, original and serves a long time. That is why such things are in great demand.
Main advantages
Home slippers can be made of various materials and in various techniques, knitted slippers are very popular. Typically, the home shoes knit crochet and very often used when it is made of soles from felt. This choice is easy to explain: felt is made from natural wool and is an environmentally friendly nonwoven material. It has a number of useful properties that make slippers on the felt soles simply an indispensable thing in the house.
Sole of felt:
- Well keeps warm, the feet will not be cold, it will not be cold;
- Resistant to wear - will last long;
- has antibacterial properties;
- soft;
- It has antistatic properties.
Design
One of the demanded models are slippers slippers. It is not surprising, because shoes without backs so easy to wear and shoot. In addition, it is usually the shoes usually longer slippers of other models, which first of all the backs are being taken.
Knitted slaps on the felt sole can be manufactured from various types of yarn - it all depends on the design that the master chooses. However, most often the knitters choose a half-walled or wool yarn, because it is assumed that such shoes will be worn during the cold season and should be very warm. Such slipper slippers are with a knitted insole or without it.
Home shoes for kids, on the felt insole including, should be with the backs, for young children, slaps are not suitable.
Knitted slap design can be different. The front of them can be decorated:
- muzzles and figures of animals;
- knitted colors;
- Pompons;
- fur;
- ribbies;
- knitted fruit;
- ornament;
- buckles;
- beads;
- buttons;
- symbols of computer games;
- Different logos, emblems.
Fantasy masters seems simply inexhaustible.
How to care for shoes
With all its advantages, knitted shoes on the felt sole requires special care, precisely because it is manufactured from natural materials.
- First of all, the dry cleaning of felt with a brush is recommended. Wash such slippers can be used only in warm water (up to 30? (C) using special means designed for wool. After washing, the thing can not be twisted, it must be carefully squeezed, wrapped in pre-fabric.
- Sew is better using special pads, or putting horizontally on the fabric. Under all these conditions, you can not be afraid that the thing will give shrinkage.
- Store slippers with felt soles followed in paper bags, you should take care that you don't get mole to shoes.
How to make your own hands?
If you like to needle how to make knitted slippers on the felt sole will be a very good idea. To do this, you need a very small amount of material. Casters Typically, the manufacture of slippers use the remains of yarn, which accumulate after the completion of a number of more large-scale knitting projects.
Slippers usually knit with a hook, for this it is necessary to have the most minimal knitting skills. To knit flip, it is better to take yarn with the content of wool in it, in this case the thing will turn out warm. Well, if the yarn will be cotton or polyamide (nylon). Such additives will give slippers resistance to abrasion. The size of the hook is selected with the thickness of the yarn (most often it is hooks No. 3-4).
A ready-to-feed insole of the size you need is taken as the sole. Knitting can be started directly from the sole, taking the insole on the edges. To do this, it will be necessary to pre-make the holes in the insoles or lay the needle seam by their edge.
You can make a top of flops separately and sew the finished part to the insole of a solid synthetic thread. In this case, the top of the slippers can be associated with a semicircular motive, the last rows of which to lie without expansion of the canvas to give part parts. A straight part of the motive is assigned a plank of the desired length, and from it - two sidewalls of future sneakers, triangular shapes.