How to Crochet Women's Slippers
- 1). Start your crochet slippers with an adjustable ring. Make a loop with the end of your yarn, leaving a tail at least 4 inches in length. This loop is the foundation for your adjustable ring. Insert your crochet hook into the loop, yarn over (wrap your working yarn around the hook form back to front) and draw back through the loop. Yarn over and draw through the two loops on the hook to create a single crochet stitch around the foundation loop.
- 2). Work five more single crochets around the foundation loop and pull on the tail of yarn to close the adjustable ring and create a round of single crochet stitches. Slip stitch into the first single crochet--insert the hook under the top of the stitch, yarn over, and draw through the stitch and the loop on the hook--to join round one.
- 3). Chain one stitch (yarn over and draw through the loop on the hook) and work two single crochet stitches into each of the six stitches in round one, and when you get to the end of the round, slip stitch into the first single crochet to join.
- 4). Chain one stitch at the beginning of round three, and all subsequent rounds, and make one single crochet into each stitch. Finish round three with a slip stitch into the first single crochet.
- 5). Work rows of single crochet in the pattern as established, increasing on even-numbered rounds and crocheting straight on odd-numbered rounds. In subsequent increase rounds, don't make two single crochets into every stitch. Instead work one single crochet into stitches between increases. For example, in round four, you will increase in every other stitch, in round six you will increase every third stitch, and so on.
- 6). Continue working until you've created a rounded piece that will fit around your toes, and then crochet a few rows straight. Stop when the piece completely covers your toes.
- 7). Begin the next row with on chain stitch and then single crochet across approximately 60 percent of your stitches. Turn your work, chain one and single crochet back across the stitches you just worked.
- 8). Make single crochet rows until the slipper's length is equal to your foot length.
- 9). Turn the heel of your slipper by crocheting to one stitch before the row's center stitch. Then, single crochet the next three stitches together. To work a double decrease, insert your hook into the first stitch, yarn over and draw through the stitch. Repeat for the next two stitches, then yarn over and draw through the four loops on the hook. Crochet into the remaining stitches as usual.
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Match up the slipper's right and left back edges and slip stitch to seam them together by inserting your hook into corresponding right-side and left-side edge stitches, making a yarn over and drawing the yarn through the stitches. - 11
Single crochet into the edge stitches around the top of the slipper. When you reach the center of the heel and the points where the side of the slipper and the top of the toe meet, single crochet three together to nip in the corners. Slip stitch into the first single crochet when you get to the end of the round. - 12
Work one more row in single crochet, this time using a complementary color. Slip stitch into the first single crochet when you reach the end of the round. - 13
Sew a button onto one side of the slipper, placing it at the point where you want the Mary Jane strap to rest across the top of your foot. - 14
Slip stitch into the edge stitch directly across from the button, make a chain long enough to loop around the button and slip stitch once again into the edge stitch directly across from the button. - 15
Break your yarn and weave in any loose ends. - 16
Crochet a second slipper in the same manner as the first, but reverse the sides to which you attach the button and strap.
