What is easier to knit slippers: crochet or knitting needles?

In magazines, a lot of work of needlewomen, in which slippers are solid, from elements, in the form of socks, in the form of boots, sandals, tracks, incomprehensible shapes. What is easier to knit slippers : with knitting needles or crocheting for beginners?

Types of sneakers

Slippers are divided into several types:

• The model starts from the sole of the heel;
• Slippers are knitted like socks, right from the heel;
• Shoes are stitched from a single leaf;
• Slippers room, knitted from square motifs;
• The sole is made of a fabric that is tied.

Knitting with a solid cloth is not very convenient and not so beautiful, since such slippers are shapeless. It is better to associate ordinary traces, but with different patterns, and see how their appearance will change. You can decorate with all kinds of fittings or knitted ornaments, animal heads.

Knit slippers with knitting needles are easier for those who know how to knit socks. Products made by the crochet, keep the form, so you can tie sharks or in the form of animals. It is best to combine knitting and crocheting. For example, to tie a heel, and to type loops on the fourth spoke using a chain of air loops. Or by crocheting to tie the sole, and then on the spokes to dial the loops and knit along the circle.

How to learn to knit slippers with knitting needles

The easiest way to tie tracks from the soles and tie it around in a circle. For their knitting, take the thread, 4 spokes (for convenience, you need about 8 spokes), hook for looping.

1. Knit the sole along the length and width of your foot. Standard knitting starts from the heel (9-12 loops) facing or the reverse side.
2. Measure out the middle of the toe with a thread of a different color or pin.
3. Type a circle around the loops on the spokes, distributing them so that it is convenient to work.
4. It is necessary to knit slippers in a circle with a gradual decrease in the toe in each row. After reaching the middle of the toe, you tie the last and first loops together with two adjacent spokes.
5. The reduction occurs until the height of the article is satisfied. If, in this case, the opening of the tracks is large, then you tie the crochets with connecting cords to pull it together.
6. If necessary, you can decorate the slippers with a bow, cord, piping or picks.

Slippers with two knitting needles

According to this technique, the tracks are knitted with a continuous cloth and sewed together. It looks like this:

• Sole, flank and "face" knit right away;
• Knitting starts on the sides of the base;
• The outsole looks like an elongated diamond;
• Further there is an increase for the front part, where one edge is sharp-nosed, and the second is square (no reduction);
• In the place of the opening, the trace is only bound from the front with the facial loops about 1 centimeter;
• Then loops are added, and the second part of the "face" is also tied according to the drawing;
• It remains only to superimpose the details on each other and sew them together.
  

Knitting slippers in this technique can even beginner skilled. But the results are unpretentious, so they should be decorated with beads, flowers, ornaments. You can still sew to the soles of the anti-slip mat.

Option for beginner needlewomen: make cardboard blanks of slippers, sew a sintepon, which is sold as a whole cloth, and tie them with a hook or knitting needles. For a sample, take the usual room shoes.