Check out my funky new house shoes. I made them yesterday from an old wool sweater (from Goodwill) that I shrunk in hot water.
I wish I'd taken a picture of the house shoes I threw away yesterday. I'd been wearing them for several years. They were laughable, even when new. They, too, were made from a Goodwill sweater. They were toasty warm, and made absolutely no sound as I walked around in them. I'd worn half-dollar-sized holes at the heels, and at the balls of my feet were holes so big that sometimes my big toes would get hung in them as I slid my feet into the shoes. The only drawback was that the felt bottoms were a bit slippery on hardwood floors.
There must be half-a-dozen pairs of store-bought house shoes in my closet. One is too noisy. One is too squishy. One is boot-like, and even have microwave-able inserts for extra warmth, but they can't be stepped into without stooping to pull them on. Plus they're about 2 sizes too big. Inevitably, I went back to the home-made shoes.
The new ones are the bomb. I sewed pleather to the soles for extra durability and lined them with quilt batting and satin for extra warmth. They are a little oddly shaped. The "pattern" I saw wasn't actually a pattern - there was just a picture of the unassembled shoes with the instruction to cut the fabric like the picture. So I put my foot down on a piece of paper, drew around it, and tried to draft my own pattern. It took a couple of tries before I got it reasonably close to the picture.
Yeah, they're a little wonky. But so are my feet. ;)
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