No-Knit Slippersox

No-Knit Slipper Socks Instructions

I love wearing soft socks around the house. Every year I try to come up with a new pattern to make my own. In 2008, while working on a "real" patten, I got the idea to make simple slipper socks by nesting 2 pairs of regular socks. Here's what I came up with.

This entire project took less than one hour to complete.

No-Knit Slipper Socks

These are a perfect kid project for junior needlecrafters. Use old socks or buy new ones to give as a gift. Here's how to make them:

Choose socks that are one or two sizes larger than you normally wear (I made mine from my husband's old socks).

Put on both pair, one on top of the other, and work them around until they're comfortable and fit properly with no wrinkles.

Using a tapestry or child's plastic, blunt-tipped needle, and whatever yarn is handy, stitch a pattern through both thicknesses of socks, WHILE THEY'RE ON YOUR FEET. The purpose of this step is to keep the socks in position for wearing and washing, but the result is a cute, quirky, practical, original handcrafted item.

Note: The most difficult part of this project is making the two slippers match. For that reason, you might want to make them different on purpose.

Here are some ideas:

Make them look like moccasins, ice skates, or muckalucks.

Make them in school colors.

For Christmas, buy red and green socks and switch them out, so each pair has one of each color, and decorate them to look like elf booties.

For a "confetti" look, use different colors of yarn and use a tufting technique to go in and out in a small space, then tie a double knot and cut off the excess about 1/2 inch long. This would be the easiest variation for a very young child, since it would be random and only uses one type of stitch and a simple double knot.

If you try this project, please share your results. I'd love to post your photos, here.

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