Illustrated tutorial for knitting flip-flops from strips of cloth. Elastic T-shirt fabric is the best choice. Find a few unwanted wire hangers as props. It’s easy and fun to knit! Friends who like knitting crafts and renovating old things, let’s learn it~~~
Step one: Cut the cotton T-shirt into strips about 3cm wide.
Step 2: Stretch the fabric slightly and let the fabric form a roll naturally.
Step 3: Bend the wire hanger into the shape of the picture above, with the two depressions about 12cm apart.
Step 4: A long white strip of cloth serves as the core of the flip-flop. Wrap the strips of fabric into a heart shape, twist both ends of the strips inwards and downwards, and finally tie the ends with a knot. Then hang it on a hanger. The crossing positions of the cloth strips are fixed with clips.
Step 5: Hold one end of the purple cloth strip with your left hand, and pass the cloth strip through the two middle white cloth strips with your right hand, in front of the left and right strips, and behind the middle two strips.
Step 6: For the cloth at the right end, pass the purple cloth strip through the white cloth strip from right to left in the order of one up and down. After reaching the left side, wrap it from the front to the back of the left cloth strip, and then to the second white cloth on the left. In front of the strip, behind the third white cloth strip from the left, and so on.
Step 7: After the purple cloth strip has been wound back and forth three or four times, tighten the cloth strip slightly.
Step 8: Use your fingers to pass between the white strips of fabric and tighten the gaps between the purple strips with a fist.
Step 9: If you have no idea about the shape of the slippers, you can place an oval-shaped reference object under the strip of cloth.
Step 10: When one purple strip is used up, you can change it to another color strip to make the color of the flip-flops look richer. The weaving method is the same as above.
Step 11: Repeat the above steps, and the bottom of the flip-flops will be knitted soon~
TenthStep 2: Use the oval reference paper to determine the length of the flip-flops.
Step 13: After the length is enough, take the cloth strip off the hanger and remove the clip. The excess purple cloth strip can be wrapped around a nearby white cloth strip. It’s okay to wrap it a few more times. .
Step 14: Hold the cloth strip with one hand, and carefully pull the two white cloth strips tied into a knot with the other hand, and pull out the excess cloth strips that were previously hung on the hanger.
Step 15: Pull out the excess white cloth and use the same method to make the sole of the other shoe.
Step 16: Use scissors to cut the white knot tied previously.
Step 17: Use chopsticks or other similar tools to lift up some of the braided horizontal fabric strips into some space, and pass the white fabric strips through the middle.
Step 18: Pull out the chopsticks after passing through the white cloth strip.
Step 19: Arrange the seams of the excess fabric strips to obtain two soles as shown in the picture.
Step 20: Fold a piece of fabric in half lengthwise with the wrong side facing out, sew it as shown, and turn the front side out. You can use chopsticks or other slender tools to help. It is best to use non-elastic fabric strips.
Step 21: After flipping it over, you can stuff PP cotton or other fillers into the slender strips of fabric, and tie them in the middle to get the effect in the picture. The tutorial specifically uses polka-dot cloth strips for distinction.
Step 22: The dot mark in the picture is where the polka-dot cloth strip serves as the upper part of the flip-flops and is fixed to the sole.
Step 23: Pass the two short strips of cloth in the middle of the polka-dot strip through the dots on the right side of the upper part of the shoe sole, and the two long strips of cloth pass through the two dots on the lower part of the sole.
Step 24: If the lower part of the strip is too long, you can follow the method of weaving the purple strip at the beginning, and weave the polka-dot strip to the sole of the shoe, which will make the strip more stable.
Step 25: Use a clip to fix the flip-flop strap first, leaving enough length, and then fix it at the bottom.
Step 26: Finally, tidy up the ends of the polka dot strips,
Step 27: After completion, the effect of flip-flops will be like a mountain bone, put it on and try the comfort~
