Putting the boot in

My huge pussycat furry slippers are falling to bits. After getting them out every winter and repairing the soles with sticky tape, I think it's time to bin them. Sad I know but they don't keep my feet warm any more with ruddy great holes in them. I feel a little bit sentimental about letting them go because they were a gift from my sister. She bought herself a pair at the same time, which were ditched a long time ago, whereas I tried to keep mine going for as long as I could.  

Anyway, today my feet were cold so I need to find something else to wear in the house. I'm too mean to buy any new slippers, so I had a look at the footwear I already have. I bought a soft pair of boots from a charity shop in the summer for £2.50. They are clean because I've only worn them a few times going to town, and they are so so comfy. They are also big enough to accommodate my knee high thick socks.

I don't like walking around the house with outdoor shoes and boots on, it wears the carpet out and scratches the vinyl floor covering in the kitchen. I can't afford to replace them, they have to last. So then I had an idea, why not make some soft soles which can be attached to the bottoms of the boots. I found a carpet offcut and drew around them.  

Then I got some string and a needle with a large eye, and added a series of loops at the front around the toes and three loops at the back on the heel. Next I got a spare shoe lace and threaded it through the loops starting at the front, going through the normal lace, taking it around the heel and back along the other side. Fastening it in a bow at the front.

There you go, a soft sole which will do no damage to the floor, and keep my feet warm at the same time.

This is the prototype for the new boot conversion to slippers model. I need to tweak the design a little, make all the loops the same size. I think I need five loops at the back instead of three. Could possibly put loops all the way around.

The slipper boots aren't very quick at putting on and taking off, so they would be a bit inconvenient if you needed to pop in and out a lot to the garden. I might have to rethink the string and come up with something a bit more rigid to make the lace threading a bit easier. It's early days, some more ideas will come.  You never know I might get onto Dragons Den with my new invention, ha ha.

Toodle pip.