EDIT: Sorry I forgot the Pictures the first time.

The felted slippers which Tina has made so far enjoyed a great popularity all around. Everybody was glad about warm feet but we still found room for improvement.
If one only has a tile and parquet floor at home, like we do, he will enjoy the opportunity to reenact the famous dance scene of Tom Cruise in “Risky Business”. But after a while one really misses the lacking traction, especially in high speed corners. Due to this the big one attached silicone soles to Tina’s and his felted slippers, according to a tutorial no longer available on the net. Last year we forgot to take pictures but since Tina made a new pair for Michael we took the chance to document the soling.
Another advantage of a silicone sole is the prolonged life span of the slippers – especially if a guy weighing almost a quintal runs around in them. Without they are worn through quite fast.

Here are the things you need for the non-slip soles:

• Slippers (quite logical, ain’t it?)
• Silicone caulking stuff
• Caulking gun
• Plastic toothed spatula
• Newspaper – for protecting your table/surface area (not mandatory as we worked over a glass plate)

You can get the silicone caulking stuff with the gun and spatula in any hardware store, if you don’t already have that stuff laying around the house. One cartridge will be sufficient for at least 4 pairs of slippers. The big guy liked it that they had been worn for a few days before, so tread surface was much better visible, showing where the silicone had to go.

We spread the silicone in fine strands on the tread surface and spread it with the spatula, working it into the felt for a good bonding of both materials, taking care to spread the silicone evenly following the given edge. You can try to add a pattern into the slippers with your spatula if you want.
When the silicone has hardened you can pull off parts of the silicone that aren’t where you want them – like if one of your squirts went awry – or if you covered too much of an edge – just cut or pull off what you don’t want. It’ll come off pretty easy. Now you are ready to go – easy peasy.

Some additional words of advice:

• Take care of a good ventilation while doing it. The stench the silicone evaporates can really be hiddeous. Believe me. Be sure to keep the nose closed while working. Michael couldn’t, thus he was a bit drowsy afterwards.
• Most importantly they are only non-slip on dry surfaces. Once the ground is wet the soles are slippery like skates on a skating rink. So please be carefull!!!
• The slippers can still be washed, you can do it by hand but we’ve done it quite a few times in the washing machine on a wool program and nothing happened.