I-Cord nearly felted Sock/slippers

These short sock are knitted on 2.5 mm needles with dk yarn making them feel like felt.
They could be used as short sock, over socks or slippers

Materials
1 100g ball dk yarn
contrasting yarn 50cm
crochet hook 3mm or bigger
2 5mm dpns
set of 5 2.5 mm dpns

ICord
6 chain with contrasting yarn DO NOT  finish off
pick up 4 stitches with 3mm dpns
knit 1 row
slip stitches to end
knit
repeat until 66 rows
pass thread through last stitches

     There are other ways to add an i-cord edging once the edge is in place either by picking up all the stitches and taking off one at a time or picking a stitch up on the return row

Heel Flap
Pick up 1 stitch per row starting from 2nd row 32 stitches
perl
Knit
stst until 30 rows have been completed

Turn
k22 turn
p12 turn
sl 1 k10 k2tog k1
sl 1 p11 p2tog p1
sl 1 k12 k2tog k1
sl 1 p13 p2tog p1
sl 1 k14 k2tog k1
sl 1 p15 p2tog p1
sl 1 k16 k2tog k1
sl 1 p17 p2tog p1
sl 1 k18k2tog k1
sl 1 p19 p2tog p1
K22

k20 up side of heel flap
pick up 32 stitches from icord
k20 down heel flap

Sock
k1 round
from centre of heel
k28 k2 tog k1
k32 from top
k1 k2 tog k 28
k1 round
repeat dec 1 stitch at side of heel every other row until 16 stitches on all 4 needles
continue until work measures 16cm (UK size 6 to 7) from where stitches where picked up

Toe
from right top of sock
dec each end of top and sole of sock until 32 stitches remain every alt row
put stitches on 2 needles (3 needle bind off)
either turn inside out and cast off taking 1 stitch from each needle
or use Kitchner stitch

Top
unpick crochet join ends of icord
sew in ends cut off

Ideas
thread cord or elastic through icord edging
Make more i-cord make flower

Mr and Mrs I cord

These are about 8cm tall and are made with 4 ply wool

Materials

Lucet fork

4 ply wool

4 prong knitting dolly

4 2.5 double pointed knitting needs

tapestry or darning needle

scissors

optional  - sleeping cat

Cord
Make about 140 cm of lucet cord with 2 strands of 4 ply - alternatively use same length of cord or paracord or just plain icord knitted to correct lengths http://www.wikihow.com/Knit-an-I-Cord
cut
head and legs 25cm
body and arms 35cm

Lucet cord is icord knitted with 2 stitches on a lucet fork

Head and Legs
Make a lanyard knot or simple turks head knot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-bVfokOb2w without the loop and making sure the ends are even length knot http://www.animatedknots.com/lanyard/index.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.png&Website=www.animatedknots.com#ScrollPoint
use your prefered knot if you wish

Body and Arms
with the head at the bottom do a cobra knot http://www.animatedknots.com/cobra/#ScrollPoint with about 5 strand accross. Place botton about 3-5 mm before head.  Whats left over is the arms.

Trousers
with a 4 prong knitting dolly knit length for just over double the length of the legs.
fold in half thread cord though tube

Skirt
with 4 ply cast on 11 or twelve stitches knit 5/6 rows cast off sew seem.
Alternatively knit a 10st tube

finish ends to correct length, you could knot the hands and feet here

to finish lucet cord unpick by pulling the centre thread between the two loop until thread long enough to pull through 2 loops sew end in.

Links

Celtic button knot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_button_knot
icord http://www.wikihow.com/Knit-an-I-Cord
cobra knot paracord suvial braclett http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paracord-550-Bracelet-Without-Buckle-(Cobra-Stich-Followed-by-King-Cobra)
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Cobra-With-Plastic-String

When looking up knots and thing on the internet look up paracord

Variations

forget the cobra knot and just knit the clothes, icord or dolly cord for the sleeves 

Could start off with a scooby square knot for head to provide head legs and arms

I am thinking of a footballer type thing with shorts ect and therefor looking into different colours

Inspiration Paracord Buddies

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Paracord+buddies&espv=2&biw=1309&bih=654&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj84OD136TNAhXG8RQKHX70ClUQsAQIGw