I made these little fringed leather shoes for Gwen this week. I’ve never made shoes or worked with leather before, so I’m really happy with how they turned out!
I googled around for instructions and patterns, but nothing I found was really what I was looking for so I ended up working up something of my own based off a few different ones. For leather I bought a bag of scraps from Michael’s, which was I think about $13 dollars, and the elastic was $3 for 3 yards. The needles and thread I already had- well, I did buy a proper needle for sewing leather but it sucked and I only made one stitch before it bent and became unusable. I had better luck with the second regular needle I used; the first snapped in half!
It took me three evenings to finish them, although a lot of time was spent working out the pattern and the original fringe I sewed on the vamps (the front/top part of the shoe) didn’t work out so I had to unstitch them and do new ones. Now that I have it figured out I think my next pair will go a lot more quickly- I still have plenty of leather from the bag of scraps, plus I ordered some beautiful gold leather from etsy that I’m really excited to work with!
They are a little big still, but they fit enough that she can wear them now, today with stripey pants and her Professor Baby sweater.
omg so cuuuuute!
I’m OBSESSED with making baby shoes now!
Absolutely dying over Professor Baby!
Wow! They are just perfect!!
Thank you so much!
These are too cute. do you have a pattern that you can recommend for working off of?
I ended up making my own pattern as none of the one I found were exactly what I wanted, but this one is a good starting off point http://www.tackyliving.com/downloads/babyShoe.pdf with instructions here http://www.tackyliving.com/article.php?id=121
Good luck!