Loop Stitch Crochet

I made a pair a cat slippers for a customer's daughter.  She sent me a picture of the cat and I made slippers to look like like it.  I've messed around with the loop stitch for crocheting before and thought that it might work well for fur.  I experimented with it and tried some new things.  There are a lot of great tutorials online that you can find.  For this project I used the double loop stitch.  This made the fur a lot more dense.  I used the same pattern I used for the other slippers but again altered is a little, TwoGirlsPatterns Slipper Pattern .

This image shows the finished slipper with the double loop stitch unchanged.

This is the same slipper but I cut the loops.  The great thing about the loop stitch is that you can cut them and the yarn won't fall out.

Again the same slipper showing both sides.  Cutting the loops really changes the look.

The strands of yarn looked alright but I wondered how it would look if I shredded them.  I thought it would be a lot more fluffy but was worried that the stitches wouldn't hold.  I decided to go ahead and try it on one side.  This picture shows how it turned out.  And there was no issue with the yarn falling out.  I just used a darning needle and split the strands apart.

This image shows the right slipper with the loops cut and left slipper with the loops cut and strands shredded.  You can see the left slipper looks more like fur and it was very soft.  The only thing wrong was that the fur was too long and uneven.  Luckily the only thing I had to do was trim it.

These are the slippers completely finished.  I think they turned out well and that the loop stitch made it easy to create the fur.

So the loop stitch is pretty versatile.   Left as is you could use it for something curly.  If you cut the loops you can make something shaggy or hair.  Or you can shred the strands to make fur or something fuzzy.  Since I've made these I've used the loop stitch to make hair for dolls.