Ladies' Bedroom Slippers

Ingredients

• two ounces double Berlin wool
• ivory crochet hook

Method

1. 1

   Make a chain of twelve stitches, turn and work into the first from the hook in double crochet.

2. 2

   Continue increasing in the center stitch.

3. 3

   After thirty ridges, work the sides of the slipper, turning and working backwards and forwards until the shoe is long enough.

4. 4

   Sew together at the heel.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 200. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LADIES' BEDROOM SLIPPERS. 227 Seventy stitches are enough for the ribbed part, and the three extra stitches may be narrowed off in the first ribbed row. Knit two pieces like the above and sew them together with the wool, leaving the side seams open, four and one-half inches from the top for the sleeve. Any pretty lace pattern of thirteen to fifteen stitches will do for this. After knitting twelve points, knit about fourteen or fifteen rows plain, which will make a little square piece on the end ; this is for a gusset, and is to be sewed to the other end like any gusset in a chemise sleeve. Then sew it into the place left in the side seam, with the point set where the seam was left open. LADIES' BEDROOM SLIPPERS. Two ounces double Berlin wool and ivory crochet hook

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.