Slippers

Slippers are needed for Men, Women, and Children.  Slippers are donated to families living in temporary housing at both The Homeless Families Foundation and The YWCA Shelters.  Women and Children are the 2 free clinics can also benefit from a warm pair of slippers, as can the women who live at Nancy Place (abused and homeless women only).  Additionally, we donated knitted and crocheted slippers to Faith Mission where men get a night here and there.  Often their feet are cold and wet and so slippers can give them time to shower, dry their socks etc.

Colors:
Avoid white, off white and light pastels.  Darker colors do better since they show the dirt less.

Yarn:
Consider using bulky yarn, or double strand knitted worsted, or double strand sock yarn for added warmth.  Additional consideration can be too make 2 pairs of slippers and stitch them together.  This provides additional warm and stability to the slippers...AND if you use 2 different colors makes the slipper reversible.


Patterns and Stitches:
There will be some patterns listed below, you are not restricted to these patterns (though these are all tested and proven to be good ones); but please make sure your slippers are stretchy to fit a variety of foot sizes.  Avoid open, lacy stitches (remember if you can poke your finger through the stitches, they're probably too open and therefore not warm enough).

Sizing:
Please label the size slipper you made, ie adult female, adult male, child-teen and whether it's small, medium, or large.  Please attach the 2 slippers together with a ribbon, string, or safety pin.

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PLEASE AVOID using a patterns that have a drawstring in them.  They don't tend to be very stretchy and therefore are very limited in the number/sizes of people they'll fit.
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A crocheted slipper from Bev's site that has been used in some of our donations to date with good results for kids-teens and smaller women.  If you use this pattern when making slippers, please let me know so I can post a picture here.  And a knitted slipper from Bev's site called Aunt Maggie's slipper

This crocheted pattern is a vintage look slipper pattern.   I would be interested in posting a picture if you use this pattern.

Our friend James found this very nice knitted slipper pattern on RAV, again please let me know if you use this pattern so a picture can be posted here to aid folks in selecting a pattern they'd like to make.


The Pink Slipper Project webpage (a wonderful charity by Joyce Lucas), has a knitted and crocheted slipper pattern by Rachel Terrill.