I’ve made something useful; slippers, that clean!
I pinned these mopping slippers a while ago, and have now got around to making my own. See, we have no carpets in our house and lots of animals; meaning furry dust-bunnies appear on a daily basis to scurry and swirl across the floor like mini tumbleweeds across the desert. Meaning I’m forever getting out my big floor dusting mop thing out from where it lives in the cupboard under the stairs and doing the sweep of the house. Which is a chore. Well, now I can do the same job just by performing graceful balletic sweeps with my dainty pointed toes into the corners of the room, as I glide about the house, doing whatever I’m already doing, without having to go and fetch the duster. Hands-free.
Which is not a chore, but fun!
Well, that’s the theory, anyhow 🙂
Making them is a very simple procedure…
I bought a couple of dusting pad refills; and also used some extra odds and sods from around the place; a thick cleaning sponge for padding so they are comfortable to walk around in on our hard floors, and an old towel for the straps and lining. I also used a bit of an old bedsheet to “interface”, if you will; effectively it’s there to stabilise and hold all the lining and padding bits together. The sponge I used for padding is actually a bit smaller than my feet but it still does provide a nice soft comfy padding when I’m walking around on them. I already had these in my cleaning cupboard, which was lucky! The sponge is very thick, so I cut it into three layers like you would a sponge cake.
I drew a template of my foot and cut out two generously sized versions out of the towelling and bedsheet lining, sandwiched a piece of the sponge between them and sewed the three layers together around the edge of the sponge.
Then cut the foot straps from the edges of the towelling, making use of the existing selvedge on one side and hemming the other edge. Fitted it to my foot dimensions, making them nice and snug so they stay on my feet ok; but not so tight that I can’t slip my foot in easily in one go.
Finally cut the micro fibre dusting pad with a big fold over allowance all around the edges, and simply folded the edges over as I went along, top-stitching it down around the edge.
Genius!
OMG! Your creativity is just amazing.
The do look really comfy! I've never lived in a carpet-free house so I'm not that familiar with those dust tumblers you're talking about. A mop sounds easier than a vacuum to me, but I'd rather dance than do housework any day!
Love it
This is so ingenious! I'm tempted to try it myself, and the slippers actually look very comfortable.
Oh Carolyn, this is so funny! I can just imagine you in one of your elegant ensembles, then looking down, these are on your feet :)) Having said that I have all hard floors downstairs too – I much prefer them to carpet (for hygiene because I too have pets and also because it's so much quicker and easier than hoovering). I would have them upstairs too, if I could. So I do know about those pet hair things and this is an ingenious solution.
Bwah ha ha! This is awesome!
Clever idea! I once saw a baby with dusting pads sewn on her knees *lol* Love such practical thinking!
Ha ha… I can't believe this… great idea! I have slippers cut out now but never thought to put dusters on the bottom!
Haha nice!
Ha! This is brilliant! I love how they look like something from the muppets. Oooh, Beaker actually. Is be smiling through the chores… Maybe. Rachel ☺
Haha!
That's the dream of children reading Pippi Langstrumpf by Astrid Lindgren made true!
So funny! SaSa
My gosh! This is GENIUS! And I'd bet you can toss them into the wash after, much nicer than mops which just hoard their dirt!
So clever and so practical!
One more vote on the genius! These are going directly to my sewing/crafty queue 🙂
ahahahaha! Yesss!
oh my goodness i love it! i have the same problem… hardwood floors and dust bunnies galore!
How funny! Let us know how effective they are.
😉 😀 😀 😀 – DEtour Carolyn, deeee-tour; will provide address in due time. Lucky you: it's 'only' in Melbourne – YET at your cheekiest reader's place :
Gerlinde, with loving greetings.
Geez, I'm going to copy those slippers (= yet I think I'm investing in a 'rollator' as well for good measures of older age of mine an 'work safety' concerns 😉 :-D)
in due time, since I assume, you might reject my cheeky 'invitation' JUST as charmingly as supermarket-cleaners (aaand window-cleaners especially) tend to do when I'm coming to them with a similar, aehem, 'temptation of invitation :-D.
10 thumbs up; you won this years 'fun-reward' (imho) of OZ for WA – congrats ;-); means: chapeau from the east coast 😉 !
That is so much fun!!!! Such a good idea. Definitely give us an update after a month or so on how useful they are!
These made me laugh so much. I grew up in Cyprus and our Turkish cleaner used to wear dusters on her feet and slide round the house all day. They have quite taken me back to my childhood, thank you 🙂
LOLOL. LOL. It's harder for me to keep up with blogs these days, but what a delight to come here today and to see these! They would also be great as an adjunct to a Halloween costume!
Ha! Awesome! I live in a house will all maple floors and two cats, so I understand. We almost bought one of those baby onesies with the dusting pads while Jane was crawling. Love it!
Haha… these are hilarious… and brilliant! 🙂
I can't say I haven't thought about doing this… just can't seem to get around to this type of sewing! Yours turned out great, kind of like monster feet 🙂
Love these!
And exercise to boot! Great idea. Jo x
Great idea! They are awesome:)
Now those are downright practical! I have all hard surface floors,too and a fuzzy black cat…I need a pair of those.
LOL! Let us know how they work.
These are just hilarious! Fabulous – very clever!
Hahaha!! I hope they work as intended–we have the same issue with fluffy tumbleweeds at our place, too!
How clever! 🙂
Do you take orders, furry tumbleweeds constant on our wooden floors!
I am the sort of person who would be wearing them when someone important rang the door bell. Actually I do mop up occasionally using a rag and my foot but these are so funny – remind me of those terrible "Scottish" wigs they sell, sewn into a tartan cap. Thanks for the tutorial. Ha ha ha.
Hahahha! That's gold. I love it. And actually, it would probably work better than a broom in my place. All those cupboards that you need to do callisthenics to dust under.
Ingenious! Seriously, you have mad skillz.
Haha!! I love it.
you are a genius!!!!!
bye
elena
I love them, but where is the video? Balletic dusting is something we need to see 😉
All I can say is that I am concerned !!!! I never in million years expected THIS post on your blog!
Haha these are brilliant!
Hi!..I love the idea….amazing !
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