Knitted Boots

Why on earth would I pay $40+ for a pair of knitted boots? I just won't. I see no point in spending such a ridiculous amount of money on something that could be made at home relatively inexpensively and relatively easily.

I present my knitted boots:



I figure these cost about $7. The yarn I use was part of my gifted stash, so I can't include that in the cost, and the clogs I used were about $7 from Wal-Mart. They're those fleece slipper clog things that have indoor/outdoor soles. Yep. Love em.

How did this happen? Well, I sat my ass down with the clogs and measured them around the edge right above where the rubber bottom is. Then I started knitting with a pair of size 15 needles and figured out my gauge. Then I simply knitted a giant rectangle that would work out to the right dimension to accommodate the clog. Now, of course, with all this math I did, don't ask me why I didn't bother just knitting them as a pattern. I very well could have. But I liked these cause the knitting was mindless.

So anyways, after the rectangles were knitted up, I pinned them onto the clog inside out and pinned the parts that needed to be sewn to fit them. I sewed them on my sewing machine and then glued and hand stitched them to the clogs. Not bad, eh?