Cinderella’s More Practical Footwear
I’m not the glass slipper type. In fact, I’m not really the shoe type (and certainly not dressy shoes). I’m much more inclined towards soft, snuggly slippers. Soft, snuggly slippers, worn at home, while sipping tea, and in the company of a sleeping kitten if at all possible. That sounds much better than any fancy dress shoe, no matter how smashing the ball might be.
So I shouldn’t have been that surprised when I found myself knitting a slipper. A warm, woolly slipper.
A warm, woolly slipper with a thick, reinforced sole and some lovely ribbing to follow the arch in your foot.
This is knit with Bare Naked Wools Breakfast Blend DK for the upper, and that plus two strands of their Romney DK held alongside for the sole. The result is the most knitterly thing you can imagine. It is ridiculously comforting and warm and just about perfect.
Now, this is my first attempt at slipper knitting (and clearly these aren’t done, I’ll be putting toes on shortly, I just took them off the needles to try them on). I can see lots of places to play with the shape and the pattern (and a few ways to fine tune the whole reinforcing yarn trick), so I have a feeling there will be more slippers in the future. But so far, so far I’m in love. No prince needed.
Dear Hunter,
sorry, my English ist not so good.
I love your idea for these socks. In my free time I like to wear the open barefoot shoes calls Five Finger Sprint. But now, in the autumn and the winter it is very cold without socks. So, I need socks “without toes”. For a longer time I search for an idea like yours. If you can create a pattern, so I am really interesting. This here looks very nice!
Best wishes
Moni
Hi Moni, your shoes sound very interesting! Alas, I am planning to put a toe on these slippers, so I don’t know that they would work for what you have in mind. But I bet you could knit something that might work if you made a traditional sock and stopped part way down the foot.
Very Beautiful! But it would be Nice to have a pattern; may I but one? 👏
Check out the ‘patterns’ link above (on the top right of every page of the site, or if you’re on mobile, tap the menu button and then tap on patterns).
They look lovely! Alas, I have no arch to speak of …
Oh, I’m about as flat footed as they come. But a bit of judicious ribbing and a few well placed increases/decreases and it can at least *look* like I have a lovely shapely foot. Even it’s more like a water ski in reality!
Oh those look lovely and snuggly and just my type of thing. Love them!