Disintegrating slippers

This last weekend I decided to make a pair of slippers. It is too warm for wool slippers this time of year, but my feet still appreciate a little cover, so I thought I'd put together a pair of cotton slippers. I did a *spectacularly* bad job sewing them, and now, less than 7 days later, they are already starting to fall apart.
Having been raised by a mother who committed a multitude of sewing errors (sleeves stitched to bodices, failed hems mended with tape) and whose approach was to curse, laugh, then keep sewing, I somehow am finding a lot of humor in my disintegrating slippers. Here are some of the project highlights:

First, the lack of symmetry.

Second, the poor construction: I don't know if you can see it in the picture, but I failed to catch the bottom layer of fabric in the edge binding. The fabric has drifted to the left and exposed the padding underneath. Lovely.

Even more poor construction...I also failed to catch the fabric in the edge binding on the top of the sole, so the fabric is now rumpling up around my toes.

Last, a nice closeup of how I "pleated" (can I pretend it is a design feature rather than a defect?) the binding going around the curve of the heel.


It's a good thing I never went into book binding (as once planned). Imagine how hard it would be to read books with pleats and drifting pages.