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Glow-in-the-Dark Slippers No more lost slippers: these feature luminescent bug embellishments that will light the way even on the darkest night! From "Uncommon Threads" episode DUCT-124

Allison Whitlock sews up her own sleepover project: slippers that have a glow-in-the-dark accent.

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Materials:

Glow-in-the-Dark Slippers

1/3 yd. lime green vinyl
1/2 yd. black trunk lining or heavy felt
1/2 yd. lime green fleece
lime green 'Sulky' rayon thread
2 sheets white felt
2 plastic bugs
glow-in-the-dark fabric paint
paintbrush

Editor's note: Use an old pair of slippers as a pattern: either cut them apart or trace around them to create the pattern pieces.

1. Cut out pattern pieces as follows:

• 1 left sole and 1 right sole from vinyl and fleece

• 4 upper pieces from trunk lining and 4 from fleece

• 4 side stripes from white felt (remember to reverse two of the pieces so that they become a mirror image of outer stripe).

2. Paint side stripes and bugs with glow-in-the-dark medium and allow to dry overnight.

3. Pin and sew side stripes to outside upper pieces (figure A).

4. Sew fleece lining to outside upper pieces at the ankle (figure B).

Figure A

Figure B

5. Sew upper pieces together at toe, using decorative flat zigzag stitch. Seam should lie flat and produce the curve of the slipper front (figure C). Repeat on each slipper at the heel.

6. Pin and sew vinyl sole to each upper, using a straight stitch and with seams on the outside. Trim any excess.

7. Insert fleece inner sole inside each slipper (figure D).

Figure C

Figure D

8. Hand-stitch bugs to the toe of each slipper.