Ordinary Life Magic (Too.)

Here’s an extra helping of warm pie at Thanksgiving for you. With icecream.

All that’s needed is two pieces of felt per pair of Moccasins, a piece of paper, yarn or string, a few large-holed beads, a needle and thread, and scissors.

Here’s how we did it.

Trace around the child’s foot on a piece of 8×10 paper which has been folded in half– making sure to trace an extra inch all the way around.
Leave the heel piece straight, instead of curving it upward, so it looks like this.

Unfold the paper, and cut out the pattern from the pieces of felt.

Making sure the underside of the felt is on the outside (reversed), fold it back over again,

and sew from the fold around the top, and down a bit.

Reverse the slipper, so it is right side out, and the seam runs down the middle of the shoe.

Cut two slits at the bottom of the slipper.

Tuck the babe’s toes inside the slipper,

and fold the middle piece upward around the heel, and fold in the sides, making a shoe shape around the foot.

Slip off the Moccasin, holding onto your heel fold.

Sew it up.

Cut out a square/rectangle shape from the felt sheet scraps,

and sew the sides of the piece on top of the Moccasin.

Cut fringe at the top of the added piece.

We used a large embroidery needle to thread yarn into, and then wove the yarn through the sides and back of the shoe– make sure to leave a long string for tying at your first end.

You could also punch holes in, instead, and weave the string in and out of the holes.

Put beads on the ends, tying on the first and last beads.

Love this.

You could absolutely do this with a beautiful leather (and I intend to), but I would advise practicing it first with felt so you can get a feel for how the shapes and cuts work.

This craft is revised from a project in the book Thanksgiving Holiday Grab Bag.