A 12 months or so ago, I offered severa pairs of these fuzzy socks that sell for as low as a buck a couple at drugstores and cut price stores all around the usa of the usa. I absolutely desired how mild and comfortable they felt in competition to my ft, however I quickly discovered that for virtually sporting under footwear, they had been no longer that realistic. They had been a whole lot too heat to put on in summertime, however in iciness, they'd get soggy and bloodless on the slightest touch of rain or snow. Plus, after certainly more than one washings, they lost most in their elasticity, so they'd bunch up below a few element footwear I changed into sporting.
Eventually I have been given bored to death with them and changed into going to discard them. But considering they have been still in accurate circumstance, I idea maybe I might also want to make something from the material. I started out thinking about how I'd never been able to discover a decent, much less steeply-priced pair of slippers that surely healthy my toes (usually a period small is absolutely too tight for consolation, and a size medium is genuinely too unfastened). What if I may need to upcycle those undesirable socks into slippers?
Once I had the idea, the technique of creating them seemed flawlessly sincere. First, I layered one pair of socks over the other on my toes to get the heels properly protected up. Then I rolled the tops of each socks down, to make a form of low-heeled bootie, and stitched them collectively. I ran the needle via the rolled white and blue layers, then slipped it thru the underlying blue layer and decrease lower back up via the rolled components. This secured the rolled-down top to the outer layer (blue), however didn't run it all of the way thru to the internal layer (white), considering the fact that stitching all of the manner across the white layer could pull it too tight and preserve it from stretching over my feet.
Once the two layers have been secured, there has been nonetheless one thing lacking. Slipper socks normally have some kind of tread on the lowest to make them less, well, slippery. So I figured this looked like a task for my hot glue gun. I got it warmed up and accomplished dots of glue in a grid pattern all around the soles of each slippers.
This worked, sort of. The slipper socks felt fairly cushty for simply sitting spherical, but after I walked in them, I must sense the ones little bumps of hardened glue proper via the cloth, urgent into the soles of my toes. It wasn't clearly uncomfortable besides in a single place, right within the center of the ball of the foot. So I form of pried that one lump loose, leaving a slightly threadbare spot at the sock, and after that the slippers have been fairly comfortable. The treads nonetheless experience slightly tremendous underfoot, but not virtually unpleasant.
I nevertheless have extra pairs of fuzzy socks to art work with, beige and black, so if I cause them to into a 2nd pair of slipper socks, I can also attempt a one-of-a-type approach with the brand new glue. Perhaps as opposed to huge blobs, I'll just lay out a skip-hatching of skinny strains that might not sense as hard underfoot. But for a first strive, I'd say these slipper socks did no longer pop out too badly in any respect. And the splendor element is, they killed birds with one stone?Salvaging the material from the vintage socks I failed to need anymore, and turning them into something I honestly wanted.
If, however, you would really like a pair of slippers like this, and you don't happen to have a couple of old pairs of fuzzy socks sitting around the house, you can just go out and buy a couple of pairs for a buck apiece at your nearest drugstore, dollar store or what have you. Throw in a little thread and hot glue and half an hour of work, and you're all set. (DIY stocking stuffer, anyone?)
