I found this tutorial and many other wonderful items at Shabby Raggy Roses and I recommend that you check it out. I absolutely love this slipper tutorial and hopefully will try to make me a pair after Christmas is over and life is back to normal.
If you do make these, please let her know how they turned out by emailing her at:
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Ballet Slippers
Here's an easy way to make some really cute slippers! Hopefully my instructions will be easy to understand! There are other ways to make these, but this is probably the easiest way. Make any changes where you prefer.
I'm a size 7.5 ( My foot measures 24.5cms) so the pattern is to fit me - please adjust to fit.
First of all, download 'Slipper base' template & 'Slipper top' template. Print, this will be your template to cut your fabic. If your foot is larger, I would say adding the extra length of your measured foot to the tails of the slipper top and to the sole would make for a perfect fit.
I'm using a cute print form Moda's Wonderland Bloom! Along with Moda Essential Dots for the inside fabric.
You will need to cut:
Base ~ 4 from wadding, 2 from interfacing, 2 inside peices and 2 bottom peices - You may want to find some non slip fabric for this, or something a little more durable.
*Make sure you flip your template so you have a left & right foot peice!
Slipper top ~ 2 from you feature fabric, 2 from wadding, 2 from the medium interfacing & 2 from your inside fabric to match the base.
Once you have all your peices cut, assemble them as shown below -
Base: Bottom peice, Interfacing, 2x wadding peices (for extra padding) and then your inside peice.
Slipper top needs to assembled - wadding peice, Inside peice (facing up) and the feature peice (facing down) so fabric is right sides together, then interfacing on top.
Once you have pinned them, stitch around each base holding all 5 layers together
Then sew around the inner curve of your top peice
Unpin the top peices, and you will need to pull the top fabric around to the other side ~ wiggle and press till nice and flat.
Topstitch around the inner curve...
Pin the tails of the top peice with feature fabric (top fabric) right sides together, sew along the edge securely - here I've added a binding to hide the edge or you can leave it raw.
Pin the top section to your base with your feature fabric and outside of bottom peice to the inside.
Carefully sew around the outside edge ensuring you're sewing through all layers really well, overlock or zig zag around the edge too.
Turn inside out - and you have a lovely pair of Ballet Slippers
Now embellish! These ones got a little bow on each side.
These got some cute crochet lace...
Again some crochet lace with some little buttons!
And finally some pink Ric Rac! Yo-yo's would be a great idea too!
Well I hope that was easy enough to understand - a bit confusing when I read back through it afterwards, but I tried.
I'd love to hear your feedback, and see pic's of finished slippers! Please feel free to email me at charjen1@optusnet.com.au if you need any further info.
