{"id":1868,"date":"2020-05-15T07:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2020-05-25T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:46:04","slug":"finishing-the-wool-slippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/15\/finishing-the-wool-slippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the wool slippers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Original post <a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/22\/felted-slippers\/\">here<\/a>! I put the slippers around my foot casts (filled with scrap fabric to make them firm) then ran them through the washer and dryer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1472.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1472.jpg 640w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1472-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1473.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1473.jpg 640w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1473-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1474.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1474.jpg 480w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1474-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>Oooo, very nicely shaped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1476.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1476.jpg 640w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_1476-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, they fit better but there&#8217;s still a bunch of extra felt around the ankle. As it turns out, positive molds (vs negative molds, i.e. casts) of your feet are <em>bigger<\/em> than your feet, so these are a bit loose. For actual shoes or other tightly-fitted footwear, I&#8217;d want to do some additional shaping via cutting\/sewing. The instructions I followed (loosely) for this project were meant to be boots with a tongue and laces \u2013 hence where the extra felt was supposed to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original post here! I put the slippers around my foot casts (filled with scrap fabric to make them firm) then ran them through the washer and dryer. Overall, they fit better but there&#8217;s still a bunch of extra felt around the ankle. As it turns out, positive molds (vs negative molds, i.e. casts) of your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/15\/finishing-the-wool-slippers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finishing the wool slippers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}