I need help! Slipper search

[lexis]

Hello Amazing Felters! Glad to be back after last weeks shut down....that was harsh. phew! glad its over. 
Okay- so I am in a bit of a bind, and cannot find ANY decent links or tutes for slipper patterns on the web. 
well....except for martha stewart and her tute is (gasp!) flawed! (ha-ha)
here's what I've got/thinking of.......
I have a nice med. sized piece of my first wet felting .. about lets say: 12" x 24" roughly...
And i also have a smaller piece of about 3/4 of that size. I have great soft leather that i wanted for skid protection on the soles.....
Now i just want to find a good reliable tutorial and/or pattern that i can use to cut up the felt and perhaps shape it into form on the foot and then sew the leather to the bottom.
  or anything along those lines for a slipper...
This is supposed to be the plan for my mans' "special" xmas gift..... Please help! I've already been tempted (and resisted- thank goodness) to just go and buy that cheap 'made in china' pair i saw at the Armyn'Navy on the weekend.  Noooooo!!!!! 
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

[radal16]

I don't know any cut out patterns for slippers, check Simplicity- you can search all their patterns online.  But if you want to wet felt a seamless pair of slippers check these sites out (hopefully they still work...)

http://www.peak.org/~spark/FeltBootPattern.html

http://www.vertetsable.com/demos_feltboots.htm

[lexis]

http://www.vertetsable.com/demos_feltboots.htm

That's funny because I just found this http://www.vertetsable.com/demos_slippers.htm and might try to do a pattern for it. 
thanks for the wet felt links- when i get money for more roving i want to try something more 3-D. AND reeeeally want to make a rug too!!
gonna try this link. wish me luck....my man may be getting eastern pointed toe slippers .. then he'll look EXACTLY like an elf.  lol. I am so mean.
I will do an update if I feel like conquering this soon-tho not today. I think it might be hard, no pattern, no actual foot to go by..... 
anyone have good tips?

[GraceOblivious]

Hi lexis,  There was an article on making (slide type) slippers a year or two ago in THREADS magazine.  There is also an independent pattern co. with some great spa and slipper  and bag patterns - cannot remember the name.   Will post again if I find it.     Also it seems to me that Chris Wass did a tute here on Craftster about knit slippers that might could be a place to start in making up your pattern.   Mostly though, cann't you trace his foot or shoe to get a pattern for the sole and then build a top over that?  Or get some of those shoe inserts and work from that?  Just ideas.  Good luck.

[corduroy cat]

go girl! wish i could have made them in that workshop

[Jane Doe]

go girl! wish i could have made them in that workshop

Speaking of that workshop......

[corduroy cat]

lol, i made a bag. which was fine with me cause i had never wet felted anything 3d. the teacher was really cool, her home was full of rugs and things she'd felted. she's actually in the midst of writing a book on felting which should be out next year. she said she might do an advanced felting class someday where we could felt over forms.

[lexis]

today's the day i try to attempt the curved toe slipper...hahaha... .wish me luck i really need it.
AND of course i got a tracing of the misters foot last night while he was doing the dishes:
me: "just step on this for a second, no no, just step on it and don't look down!"
him: "what?? oohh! okay."
-tracing foot-
him: "While you're down there you could massage my feet"
me: "HA- no way your feet stink"
then he just laughed at me as i continued to mumble to myself about it being much easier having his actual foot to work by... i think he realises that i am having a helluva time making his original slippers! lol! he made the felt with me- so  its not a HUGE surprise! LOL!!!!