How to Make Monogrammed Fleece Slippers

Jennifer Stern, contributor

1/3 yard fleece (outside and foot bed of slipper)Here's what you'll need:

• 1/3 yard flannel (lining for slipper)
• 1 package of Jiffy Grip (nonslip material for the soles)
• 1/3 yard Warm and Natural cotton batting (interlining)

If you're going monogram your slippers, you'll need your embroidery machine and supplies:

• Embroidery thread (I used built-in lettering for the monogram)
• Tear-away stabilizer
• Wash-away topper stabilizer such as Solvy from Sulky
• Bobbin thread

If you are going to embroider a monogram or design or both, stitch before you put your slippers together. A great time-saving tip is to cut out the piece that you will be embroidering on, hoop it up, and let it go while you cut out the rest of the pieces. I decided to stitch the monogram on the outer side of one piece. Hoop a tear-away stabilizer and use temporary adhesive spray to adhere the fabric in the hoop. If you are using fleece, put a piece of wash-away stabilizer over the fabric that will be embroidered—that really keeps the stitches from getting screwed up in the nap of the fleece!

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Remove all of the stabilizer before you start to put the slippers together.

 

Whenever I use a multisized pattern, I always trace the size that I will be cutting out; that way, I can make another size later.

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Remember to transfer all the notches to the traced pattern pieces.

You need to cut out a bunch of stuff to make these slippers (two of each): fleece for the foot bed, Warm and Natural for the padding under the foot bed, and some sort of nonslip material for the soles. Also cut out fleece and lining for the front and back pieces. I am using a microfleece for the lining—that eliminates the need for the Warm and Natural batting. (If you are using flannel for the lining pieces, you may want to cut out interlining pieces out of the batting to make them warmer and more stable.)

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Cut out all of your pieces.

Get the soles ready—layer the fleece (right side up) on top of the Warm and Natural. The nonstick material is on the bottom of the stack, nonstick facing down.

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Layer the pieces for the soles.

 

Use temporary adhesive spray to hold all the layers together evenly, and baste around the edge.

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After you baste the soles together, trim the edges even.

Place the front slipper and front lining pieces right sides together and stitch between the notches.

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Stitch between the notches of the front pieces.

Clip at the notches and turn the front pieces so that the wrong sides are facing each other.

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Clip at the notches.

 

Steam the curved finished edge, and baste the raw edges together.

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Here's how the front pieces look after they are sewn and basted together.

Place the back slipper and lining right sides together, and stitch along the top edge. Press and turn so that the wrong sides are facing each other.

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Stitch along the top edge of the back slipper and lining.

Fold the finished edge down at the notches. Baste to hold the folded edge down and keep the edges of the slipper and lining even.

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Fold the finished edge down at the notches and baste.

 

Pin the front and back pieces together.

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Pin the front and back.

Sew the front to the back on both sides—the seam allowances will face the right side.

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On both sides, sew the front and back together.

Matching all of the notches, pin the slipper to the sole. Sew all the way around the edge, trim the seam allowance to 1/8 inch, and turn your slipper right side out.

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The right sides of the slippers will face the nonslip side of the sole.

 

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After you pin the slipper to the sole, peek inside to make sure you can see the nonslip material—if you see the foot bed, you have them pinned on wrong!

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