Miss You Sew Much

Here's something that I posted to Craftster.org a while back -- a pattern for booties/peds/slippers/whatever you want to call them. There is a link in that post to a PDF of the pattern that I made. The booties are made with a cotton/lycra stretchy material, the kind of stuff that leggings are made of. Not stockings or tights, but the thick cottonyish ones. The fabric was a bit hard to find, actually -- I happened to have some in my stash, so I used that, but I wasn't able to find anything in the fabric store...until just this past week. I found some at JoAnn when I happened to be in there picking up some thread. They only had one or two colors, and they were solids, but they were just perfect. It was with the dancewear and swimwear fabric. Just remember too use a zig-zag stitch -- I would say use an overlock, as I did with the first pair I made, but the zig-zag doesn't create as aggressive a seam inside, if your feet are sensitive to that sort of thing.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE these little slippery things. You can put dots on the bottom with puffy fabric paint or silicone caulk or whatever you have handy to make them more grippy if you want to walk around in them on hard floors. I use them at night when I put lotion on my feet, to protect the sheets and keep the stuff from rubbing off.