Top of Slipper
Sew a and b together
"You get a pair of fleecy inner soles—they have them at all the shoe stores—and then you cut a top piece of bright colored chintz just the shape of the top part of a slipper and you sew it together at the back and bind the edges all around."
"How do you put the top and the sole together?"
"The edge of the sole is soft enough to sew through. You turn the top inside out over the sole and sew the binding of the chintz on to the edge of the sole over and over and when you turn it right side out there you are with gay shoes."
"They'll fill up a bag, though," commented Ethel Blue. "I should think you might make a pair just like that only make the sole of something that would double up. Then they'd go into a case and be more compact."
"That's a good idea, too," agreed Ethel Brown. "What could you use for a sole?"
"Soft leather would be best. I imagine you could get a piece from the cobbler down town. Or you could get the very thin leather that they used at Chautauqua for cardcases and pocket books—the kind Roger uses—and stitch two pieces together."
"Why wouldn't a heavy duck sole do?" suggested Mrs. Emerson.
"If you stepped on a pin it wouldn't keep it out as well as leather," objected her daughter.