Yahoo! I feel so happy. 😍 I am finally able to finish a crocheted house sandals for my little man. Ever since I started learning how to crochet last year, making slippers has been one of my "dream" projects. It all started when my rubber flip-flops broke and I thought of remaking it into a crocheted masterpiece.
Well I still haven't completed that slippers of mine but today I am happy to share what I have made for my Little man.
Finding The Pattern
It has not been easy to find a pattern to follow because I normally just refer to free tutorials I can find in YouTube or pinterest. Some are too complicated for me to follow or there is not a size that fits my son.
Another reason is I am always looking for a pattern in which I can use the yarn available to me.
A few weeks back, I decided to follow a pattern to make everything (including soles) and here's what I achieved. 😅
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Since my yarn is too thin the sole I made only fitted half the sole of my kiddo. Needless to say, I abandoned this project. Haha.
Last Saturday, I decided to finally go to the yarn shop to get some skeins for this sandals project and other projects in mind. I found this nice teal chunky yarn and decided it would be fit for the job.
Also, instead of making the soles from scratch, I salvaged these rubber soles from the old sandals of my eldest. That's half the job done. Clap! Clap! Clever, clever, Arlyn. 😂
Let's start working!
First, I had to cut the rubber soles to fit my son's feet. The soles are still big for him so I had to cut off about half an inch from the original size. Then, I use this pointy thingy (sorry, I really don't know what this is called. 😅) that I found inside my sewing kit to poke holes around the sides of the rubber soles. This is where I would crochet.
I had to use 3.5mm hook to single crochet around the rubber soles because I was afraid to break it if I were to use a big hook.
After completing this round, my girl commented that I should use the clean side up so I flipped the stitches and this left sole became the right sole.
For the second round I already used a 10mm hook. It is finished in no time.
I met a slight mishap as I was doing the second sole because I used the 3.5mm hook throughout the two rounds! After I finished the second round of the other half I thought I just made my tension tighter but I realized quickly enough that I used the wrong hook.
It was late and I cannot think straight anymore so I set the work aside for the night and continued the next day. Though I was tempted to keep the second half as it was, I still frogged the second round and used the 10mm hook.
The leaf of the sandals should not have been this crossed pattern at first. I originally followed a pattern with closed top but when I finished, it was too wide for my son's foot.
Again, I frogged that part and settled in making it simple with two strips of half double crochets.
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And here it is! My son's new sandals. Let's get walking!
Little Miss, artistic as she is, suggested that we decorate this pair of sandals with a monster (Monster Inc, perhaps?) design or something similar. I told her I'll see what I can do but she just gave me an idea that I will pimp her sandals instead. 😍
