Comments on: How To Make Felt Slippers

By: Jacky

Jacky — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:03:30 +0000

I have just found your blog today through a friend. We have both been to a couple of classes and learned felting and nuno felting and we are *hooked*.
How lovely to find your blog and these beautiful slippers. We may be coming into Summer over here in Australia, but I definately want to try and make a pair of these slippers in readiness for next autumn and winter.
I am about to go and check out your video. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us…very generous of you.

Warm wishes from Australia,

Jacky

By: rayreynolds

rayreynolds — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:35:23 +0000

I’m afraid I’m going to be very unhelpful as I don’t know how to stop the bobbles appearing on the felt. I have a little device called a ‘bobbleoff’ which de-fuzzes my jumpers when they get bobbly. You can buy a fabric hardener which might help but I haven’t tried using before. Sorry – not a lot of help at all!

By: cashewnut

cashewnut — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:25:37 +0000

this is a great video, i made them the same way as yours, apart from i used a shoe last inside to shape to the correct size. but when my daughter starts to wear them for a few days, bobbles started to form both at the bottom and the sides, is there anything i can add to the felt to make it more firm, might be some kind of fabric hardener?? i don’t think it’s the case of not felting it enough, i even put it in the washing machine twice after i hand felt it. i had to stop my daughter wearing them now, otherwise the more i cut off the bobbles, the thinner it gets!!!

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:55:56 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing the video!Tatiana

By: rayreynolds

rayreynolds — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:48:31 +0000

Thank you for all your compliments! I am so sorry that I am not very good at responding to comments made. I will attempt to be more organised and reply to people sooner in the future! Just to answer all of the questions that were asked ages ago… the slippers took about an hour an a half. Slippery floors – apparently you can sew leather or some kind of slipper fabric (used in slippers) to the bottom. I think they would be very slippery so you would need something on the bottom. The sprinkler I bought from http://www.winghamwoolwork.co.uk/eqp_flt_equipment.php – it is called a bulb spray in the catalogue. The Handweaver’s Studio – I also thoroughly recommend! And finally – I will have to try the microwave idea. I did try it once and managed to burn the wool – any suggestions on time and power level? :-)

By: Nicola

Nicola — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:33:35 +0000

Thanks for this video! I watched it through a couple of times and then made a pair of boots, which turned out perfectly. The technique is brilliant. I cut the fulling and fitting time down a bit by just sticking each boot into the microwave on full for a couple of minutes. They shrank down very quickly and could be formed to the right size within a few minutes.

It’s so much easier to follow a video than a set of still pictures!

By: H. Hollinger

H. Hollinger — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:07:50 +0000

My daughter’s go to a Waldorf/Steiner school so of course this felting is easy for them…..but I can never get their directions to make sense…this video made it so easy. THANK YOU SO MUCH…please post more of your wonderful talents.
Cheers, Holly

By: Deb Seeger

Deb Seeger — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:27:21 +0000

A tad late for holiday gifts for this past Christmas but oh what a lovely gift these shall make next year. Thank you for sharing.

By: marta

marta — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:29:33 +0000

My mate and I are meeting today to make slippers for xmas…We’re the Felt Warriors, and we would have no raison d’etre if it wasn’t for your teachings!!!We express our intense gratitude to the Felt Slipper Master that generously devoted time to pass on wisdom to her disciples. Hail the Felt Revolution!!! Let’s all join the ranks of the Warm Toes Brigade!
M (on behalf of myself and Brrroooniaaa)

Ps. If anyone out there is in london, I would like to recommend the most amazing shop to get all your felting needs:

The Handweaver’s Studio, 29 Haroldstone Rd, E17 7AN
An absolute gem of a shop, excellent service, fabulous stock.

and I get no comission from them, just in case! ;-}

By: Marty

Marty — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:07:06 +0000

thank you for this tutorial. It is so inspiring!!! Your slippers are lovely!!!