While it takes a abundance of skill, eternity and materials to cause sneakers and boots, you can build a mild duo of slip-on shoes for stressful encircling your cave or driving. Depending on your taste, you can create the shoes elsewhere of a tanned, Flexible hide or bag a cotton structure. For the Individual, you can avail hide or a thick, felted wool. You can decorate the shoes but you please, with additional stitching or ric-rac trim.
Instructions
1. Hint your feet onto the leaf of paper. Add approximately 1 inch thickness all the fashion on all sides of both of your feet. Abbreviate outside the tracings.
2. Pin your foot patterns to the wool felt or pigskin and abbreviate two pieces for Everyone foot so that you keep four pieces complete. These Testament be the soles of your shoes.
3. Allure the device for the sides of the shoes. Degree the inside length of your foot from mid-heel to your Centre toe. Compose half a "U" shape on the paper. At the backside neb of the "U" shape, haul a 3-inch edge. At the top extremity of the "U" shape, allure a 2-inch border. Connect the two lines and chop gone the marking.
4. Fold your essence in half, appropriate sides well-balanced, joining the selvedge edges. Pin the half-U shaped representation onto the fabric, lining up the bottom, 3-inch edge with the fold. Cut out the fabric. You will need to chop a total of four.
5. Fold one half-U shape in half, with the right sides together. This will be the outside of one shoe. Pin the short, 2-inch end together and stitch, leaving a 1/4-inch seam. Pin the sole to the shoe, tucking the raw edges of the shoe under. Thread your needle with the craft thread and knot one end. Use a blanket stitch to stitch the sole to the shoe.
Pin together along the opening, then stitch in place, leaving a 1/4-inch seam. Repeat with the other shoe.
7. Cut a 3-inch strip of elastic. Pin one end of the elastic about 2 inches away from the center of the heel on the shoe, along the top edge. Stretch the elastic until the other end is about 2 inches away from the center of the heel on the other side. Pin it in place, then stitch it to the top edge using a zigzag stitch. Repeat with the other shoe. The elastic will help the shoe stay on your foot.
8. Place one sole on top of the other, with wrong sides facing in. Stitch the soles together, leaving a 1/4-inch seam along the edge. Repeat, sewing the other two soles together.
9. Lay one sole along the bottom of the shoe. Repeat with another half-U shape for the inside of the shoe and then with the two others, which will be for the other shoe.6. Place one outside piece over one line piece, right sides together.
10. Decorate your shoe by adding a ricrac trim to the inside. Pin the ricrac to inside of your shoe so that half the ricrac peeks out. Hand-sew in place.
