Hi everyone,
I've been looking for patterns everywhere, but easy sandals for wearing inside during the summer were impossible for me to find. Some required using #10 thread, which would take too long for something that's only going to last a year or so, and some others I tried had really weird shapes and didn't fit my feet at all.
So I pulled out the rug yarn I got from a store that went out of business locally and had it for 1/2 price, and got to work designing them myself. Took 5 skeins of rug yarn and some frogging, but I've got a really simple pair of sandals that are custom fit to my feet and have both an insole and sole.
I made them with soles and insoles for 2 reasons: 1. We get bullhead stickers around here like crazy, and they go right through my single thickness yarn winter slippers. I also added a plastic canvas midsole to help deflect those nasty stickers, but 2 thicknesss of rug yarn should be enough to stop any prongs from digging into my feet. 2. Making a sole in a contrasting color and stitching it on with the contrast color means when the soles start wearing out I can resole them and they'll last longer.
No, I haven't written down the instructions yet. Just jotted notes. I'm going to make a pair that's slightly different from the completed ones, as I remembered when it was mentioned about buying out stock from stores going out of business that I had a big bag of rug yarn I bought to experiment with to make sandals for inside, so I have plenty more to play with. Used most of 5 skeins for the first pair, so that's a pair of sandals for like $3 including the price of the plastic canvas, and I think they are much nicer than flip flops you find for that price, and I can't see spending $7-10 for a piece of rubber with cheesy straps that's going to self-destruct in a year!
Leah