There are many, Many easy patterns for slippers. You would not have a problem making your own.

This is a pattern our granddaughter (at age 14) used.

I've never crocheted slippers, but I have crocheted a lot of baby booties, and I would imagine that except for size, it would be much the same thing. Not difficult at all. Unless you chose a difficult pattern. Have you checked out ravelry.com for patterns? There are gazillions of them!

Very pretty afghan, by the way.

Rusty

Or you could try to buy a pair you like on Etsy.com.

Jasdip, if you go to Ravelry.com, there are tons of free patterns. The ones where you crochet in the round are very easy as are some of the others. If you pick a pattern and need help, I would be more than happy to translate the pattern to you and walk you through it.

The pattern below is one of the free one’s I have in my favorites that’s for a beginner level.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/womens-quick--easy-slipper-socks

In addition to the pattern pictures, 27 people have posted pictures of the ones they’ve made so you can see how they come out. Let me know if you need help, I love to crochet and try to help others who wants to learn any way I can.

Yes you can crochet slippers....it's very easy.

But I will caution you. I made a crocheted slipper for my GF one year who wore them down her stairs, she slipped and fell and broke her toe and needed surgery. So there's that.

I felt so badly!!

I replaced them with fleece pull on slippers that have gummy stuff on the bottom to prevent slipping.

You can just search on line for free crochet slipper and you'll find a lot...

https://pattern-paradise.com/2017/12/17/free-crochet-pattern-snappy-slippers/

they have a lot if patterns on youtube and then you can see how to do it

I love knitted or crocheted slippers but.... find they are most made too loose. I want someone to make me some with tight stiches and very thick yarn.

"I made a crocheted slipper for my GF one year who wore them down her stairs, she slipped and fell and broke her toe and needed surgery. ... I replaced them with fleece pull on slippers that have gummy stuff on the bottom to prevent slipping."

I've knitted slippers for everyone in my extended family, and I put dots of anti-slip stuff on the bottom to prevent sliding around on wood and tile floors/stairs, etc.

I was going to suggest You Tube but bengardening beat me to it. Lots of videos to watch.

Lindsey, those sound like my pattern for Baba's Bed Socks! Jasdip, pretty afghan. I have a pair of slippers made in the checkerboard pattern with phentex! The last year we went to AZ a lady was telling me about them. I asked more questions, and she went and found the pair she had made. Her dog wouldn't "let" her wear them! He kept biting at her feet when she wore them. She gave them to me! Do you knit? Or just crochet? If you knit, I can try to write the pattern for them, and would just use a bulky yarn instead of the phentex. As far as I know you can't buy that anymore. My mom crocheted slippers, just a rectangle the length of your foot, stitch up the back of the heel on the short side, then up the toe and the top of your foot to where you wanted it to stop for your ankle, if that makes sense. And as others have said, www.ravelry.com is a great place to find free patterns.

Tami, lucky you on getting a pair of checkerboard phentex slippers! I haven't seen phentex in years.

Lindsey I was thinking of doubling the yarn, so thanks for that reassurance.

I'm definitely going to check out all of these options, thanks, everyone!

Amazon & WalMart (online) have Phentex yarn.

my DS always uses 2 strands of yarn. I made a pair and only used one and they wore out fast. They are also warmer with 2.

Check out Ravelry for a pattern.

I recommend that you use a good sock yarn for slippers. A good sock yarn will be wool with bit of nylon in it. That gives it wear. Slippers made from only wool or acrylic will wear out in one season of use if they are worn everyday. Look for a good sport weight sock yarn.

Look for a pattern that has a cuff, more of a bootie type. They will be the ones that stay on and keep the feet warmer.

Those little slippers that just fit around the foot are not really that practical. They slide off the foot easily and don't hold close to keep the feet warm or protected

This is a good time to pick up knitting and learn that skill. You can do so much more with knitting than with crochet. Booties are an easy learn. Look up Grandmas slipper pattern. It is very simple and easy knit and is very popular and is probably one the most replicated patterns for slippers, ever. You might even find a crocheted version.

Some people have really slippery floors And, I don't like the idea of putting anti slip anything onto the bottom of anything that I have held in my hands and created. It that is what is needed, I would rather buy something that has a soft sole.

Have never heard of Phentex yarn. Looked it up and it says that it is made of olefin fiber. I am going to change the focus here from knitting to tother concerns. Those other concerns are environmental, firstly. That olefin is never going to compost on the earth and will remain in some landfill for what may be eternity.

I strongly advise you to use a wool mix. It will not only feel good running through your fingers, and on your feet after you have finished, it will also decompose away with the exception of the small percentage of nylon fibers. I believe you said that you had slippers made from it when you were younger. I guarantee you that those slippers are buried in some mountain of landfill somewhere, still intact. That is scary.

Expand your experience and use some real wool. Sure everything has a carbon footprint, but some leave bigger impressions in the earth than do others. The same for acrylic. As you learn more about the needlecraft, try to have some new experiences. Crochet benefits by a nice yarn just as knitting does. The same is true with sewing. A good fabric can make a simple construction into something quite wonderful. The same is true with knit and crochet. Use a nice fiber to work with.

Good tools and good raw materials are more gratifying, no matter if you are experienced or just learning. If you don't like how something is not coming together, you can always rip it out and start again. No loss of yarn, and you probably learned something from the experience

Use some real wool to broaden your skills with. It is a world apart from some of those big box yarns.

If you do wish to use other than pure wool, I recommend Lion Brand Wool Ease. It is a wool/acrylic mix and is OK, but it will wear through the bottom quickly with frequent wear. Better a sock yarn with a bit of nylon.

Wool is warmer.

This is a good time to pick up knitting and learn that skill. You can do so much more with knitting than with crochet.

Maybe, but it’s soooooo boring. If you need to use acrylic yarn due to budget constraints, Hobby Lobby’s I love this yarn is pretty durable and affordable especially when it’s goes on sale. I would double the thread up though so it offers more cushion on the bottom. If you’ve never done anything but blankets, it could be fun to work on something like the one Annie linked to. It’s working in the rounds, which isn’t hard, you just need to mark where the repeat of your circle is.

I crocheted that pattern for my daughter for a blanket for her bed, and a similar pattern for my son for his bed! I have never crocheted slippers but would like to learn. I just do squares and rectangles and the simplist of patterns: the old fashioned granny, because you don't need to think as you work. hahaha

How in the world can knitting be considered boring, as opposed to crochet? By what logic could that be true?

I know that this is not slippers, but here is a link to a crochet technique that will encourage one to step up from granny squares into something quite different.

https://www.tinnacrochet.com/

Her crochet is quite different. It looks complicated but it is just crochet stitches, nothing more.

I haven't tried it yet but have it bookmarked. That counts, right?

It looks like you would want to learn a technique for securing the yarn ends as you go because there are a lot of color changes here.

I am of the opinion that crochet is best suited to creating lacy motifs and does not always produce a nice fabric with a good hand to it. Both knitting and crochet have their strengths and weaknesses for creating a fabric.

I am actually crocheting something right now. For what I am doing, crochet gives me the texture that I need for it. Plus, it uses another set of muscles in the hand. Sometime it is good to switch off from one skill to another.

I am so tempted to crochet my little grand daughter a little poncho. It sounds so last century but I am attracted again and agian back to a pattern that I saw on Rav. The real obstacle is that I don't think that she would ever wear it unless I was there to encourage it. She is five and lives where it is warm most of the year. But, this pattern just so intrigues me and keeps calling. I look at it once in a while and, again, that counts, right?

There are a ton of patterns now for this type of design in crochet. They’re beautiful.

I am of the opinion that crochet is best suited to creating lacy motifs and does not always produce a nice fabric with a good hand to it.

I’m not sure I understand your comment. Sure there are pro’s and con’s for each, but crochet has come a long way since doilies and motifs. You can cable using a drop stitch technique, tapestry with it using the moss stitch and there’s also Tusian crochet which offers the same look as knit using one needle. Yarn’s have also come a long way since many of the scratchy wools and acrylic of 20-30 years ago. Ravelry has some really stunning patterns for clothing that’s crocheted too. It’s really just a matter of personal preference.

Poncho’s seem to be making a comeback and the bohemian Ruana’s are becoming increasingly popular as well. I would go ahead, make it and send it. Who knows...find the right yarn to make it with and she might just love it.

This is kind of late in the thread to bring this up, but it just dawned on me that Jasdip’s blanket is done in single crochet. If someone is interested in learning some of the other stitches there are blogs that have some really good tutorials along with free patterns including slipper patterns. Both are very easy to follow.

Tamara @ Mooglyblog.com.

and for the lefties out there,

Megen @ leftinknots.com has tutorials for lefties

Lukki, mine is done in single, half and double crochets. But it's easy to do!

I know how to knit, but I would much rather crochet. To me, crocheting is relaxing and knitting is not.

I wish I had time to crochet some slippers right now. Maybe, I'll just save a pattern and do it later.

I can only see the singles, but it turned out really well Jasdip! If you know those 3 stitches then you should be good to go with most all slipper patterns.

I feel the same way woodrose. Some knitting projects I see are really beautiful, but knitting is just not as enjoyable to me. I recently invested in some higher end merino wool yarns to make scarves with. This is the one I’m working on now, it’s just a simple double st in a criss cross pattern. A good project to do in front of the tv.