Fall is a Great Time for a New Knitting Project: Slippers

Christmas is just around the corner and everyone loves to receive new slippers for Christmas. Fall is the perfect time to start a new project of knitting slippers to give to your family and friends as a Christmas gift. Here are some very cool animal patterns for slippers for your new knitting project.

PolarKnit.com has some adorable free slipper patterns in PDF format of a ladybug slippers and piggy slippers. Both the ladybug slippers and piggy slippers have the instructions to knit slippers for a baby, medium child, large child, small adult, and medium adult.

The other popular slipper is the slipper sock. The Crystal Palace yarns have a free knit lightly felted slipper sock pattern that was designed by Nancy Wild of Warm & Wild Designs. You can find the pattern here. Using Taos wool will make your sock feel really nice. Tao is spun from very soft wool that gives it that wonderful feel. They have some new fall colors including wintergreen, kaibab, chili pepper, and feldpar. You can see these color beautiful colors here. To make this slipper socks, you will have to be able to do twined knitting that you can learn how to here. Crystal Palace has many other free patterns for knitting here.

Another fun slipper that you can knit is called the Mary Jane Slipper. The Mary Jane Slipper is a resemblance of the Mary Jane Shoe and these slippers are so adorable. You can find the pattern on The Purl Bee website. These are very fun and easy to make.

You may also choose to purchase patterns for your new knitting project when you are making slippers as a Christmas gift. A wonderful website to visit is KnitPicks. Some of the patterns are TV slippers pattern, snowflake special, love-heart slippers pattern, cherries jubilee slippers pattern, and more. You can receive free shipping for orders over $50.

If you have never knitted before or you need to refresh your memory on how to knit because it has been a long time since you picked up a knitting needle. You can visit Aok Corral website. They will have wonderful photos and instructions on how to cast on, how to knit, how to bind off, how to purl, and how to do ribbing. This is a great website to learn how to knit.

Now is the perfect time to start a slipper-knitting project for Christmas gifts for your family and friends. There is no better time than now just before the cold air starts to set in for winter.