Boot covers
Updated: Mar 30, 2022
A fun way to spice up your boots without any lasting damage! You can enhance this pattern however you please: different colours, embroidery, felting - the options are limitless!
As seen in my Hilda and Anna (traveling) cosplays.
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Materials
4 mm hook
300 DK yarn
I used Ice Yarns Lorena
25 cm zip
A pair of boots
Length of elastic that fits around the base of the boot
Yarn needle
Stitch markers
Scissors
Sewing needle and thread
Stitches
Chain (ch)
Slip stitch (sl st)
Single crochet (sc)
Single crochet increase (inc)
Single crochet decrease (dec)
Pattern notes
Project is worked flat and in the round at various points.
Boot anatomy used
Instructions
Toe caps
Ch 11
Row 1: inc, 8 sc, inc, ch 1, turn (12)
Row 2: sc, inc, 8 sc, inc, sc, ch 1, turn (16)
Row 3: 2 sc, inc, 8 sc, inc, sc, ch 1, turn (16)
Row 4: 2 sc, 2 inc, 8 sc,2 inc, 2 sc, ch 1, turn (20)
Row 5: 2 sc, (sc, inc) x2, 8 sc, (sc, inc) x2, 2 sc, ch 1, turn (24)
Row 6: 2 sc, (2 sc, inc) x2, 8 sc, (2 sc, inc) x2, 2 sc, ch 1, turn (28)
Row 7: 2 sc, (3 sc, inc) x2, 8 sc, (3 sc, inc) x2, 2 sc, ch 1, turn (32)
Row 8-18: sc along, ch 1, turn (32)
Row 19: 2 sc, (4 sc, inc) x2, 8 sc, (4 sc, inc) x2, 2 sc, ch 1, turn (36)
Row 20: sc along, ch 1, turn (36)
Row 21: (5 sc, inc) along, ch 1, turn (42)
Row 22: sc along, ch 1, turn (42)
Repeat row 22 until the toe of the boot is covered
Do not finish off, continue to Vamp
Vamp
Row 1: 9 sc, (3sc, inc) x6, 9 sc, ch 1, turn (48)
Row 2: 9 sc, (4 sc, inc) x6, 9 sc, ch 1, turn (54)
Row 3: 9 sc, (5 sc, inc) x6, 9 sc, ch 1, turn (60)
Finish off and continue to Shaft
Shaft
Join yarn at stitch #30 of row 3 of Vamp. Ch 31 or until the chain measures the length from the vamp to the top of the boot.
Row 1: sk first st, sc down the chain and down the first 30 sts of row 3 of Vamp (chain length + 30 sts)
Row 2: sc along, ch1, turn (chain length + 30 sts)
Repeat row 2 until the piece reaches the middle of the back of the boot and finish off.
Join yarn at st #60 of row 3 of vamp.
Row 1: ch1, sc along Vamp and up the chain (chain length + 30 sts)
Row 2: sc along, ch1, turn (chain length + 30 sts)
Repeat row 2 until the piece reaches the middle of the back of the boot and finish off.
Bottom edging
Sew the elastic into a band with 1cm/ ½” seam allowance.
Join yarn at bottom corner of one side of the shaft.
Round 1: Ch 1, sc around evenly. Join to first st with slst.
Rounds 2-6: Ch 1, sc around. Join to first st with slst.
Fold the piece over the elastic and slst around, going through the stitches of the last row and the first row, creating a tube around the elastic.
Finish off.
Insert the zip at the back using this technique.
Top Edging
Join yarn at top corner of one side of the shaft.
Row 1: sc along evenly, ch 1, turn.
Row 2: (sc 9, dec) around - for a tighter grip, reduce the number of sc in each repeat; eg: (8 sc, dec)
Finish off and weave in ends.
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