I do like the Internet.

Yesterday, Mamfa popped by specifically to leave a comment that she’d seen a pair of Those Shoes in a size 5, in a shop in Leeds.
Mamfa doesn’t know me, she saw my post via the friends list of a community that we both visit. But she had some useful information, and took the time [...]

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The Devil’s In the Details.

Earlier this year, Paul and I got engaged. Presumably this means that at some point in the future there will be a wedding. So, of course, I did what any ridiculously addicted freshly engaged woman would do – I went shoe shopping.
I saw a pair of shoes, by Irregular Choice. I saw them on the [...]

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Experimental slipper-shoes…

So, I’ve made a few pairs of slippers now, and they seemed to go quite well. I thought I would attempt the next stage in the experiment towards being able to make my own shoes.

In the left hand photo, the slippers have completely finished uppers. At this point I would normally attach a felt [...]

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That’s better!

After the slight technical difficulty with Daniel’s slippers I did a bit of unpicking and attached the soles in a slightly different way.
Here they are, with big brother Edward’s skull slippers, enjoying the sunshine:

Both of these pairs were made from drawings of the boys’ feet.
I’m slightly concerned that Daniel and Edward won’t be heavy enough [...]

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Shoe Envy.

I really must get a move-on and work out how to make little canvas shoes.
The Nice Man Who Knows About Feet told me that I shouldn’t be wearing Converse any more, so I sold my yellow pair with daisies and ladybirds to . I still have a pinstripe pair that didn’t sell, and I [...]

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A Slight Technical Difficulty.

Today I’ve been making slippers for Daniel, my colleague’s smallest son.
I’ve been following the instructions from Kwik Sew pattern 3323.
The Kwik Sew pieces are simple ovals, which can be worn on either foot, so I drew out my own pattern pieces to make them the same shape as Daniel’s feet. I then assembled all the [...]

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More slippers, and an exhibition!

, your slippers are finished! I hope you like them. :)
This pair were made to fit a drawing of ’s feet, which she sent to me using the Power of the Internet. I now need to post them across the Atlantic, and hope that they fit when they get there!

These are made in the same [...]

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More slippers…

The monkey slippers are finished!
I added some felt soles, with a decorative blanket stitch to neatly finish off the edges. I hadn’t worked blanket stitch for approximately 28 years, but it was lovely to have a look through my Great Aunt’s sewing book from 1940, for a little refresher course. :)

I love these monkey [...]

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Everybody needs monkey slippers!

Today I have been mostly making monkey slippers!
I promised to make a pair of slippers for a friend, so I thought I’d better make a prototype for myself first, to figure a few things out. I had just enough monkey fabric left from my Superbuzzy order, so I couldn’t resist using it up.
I have plans [...]

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El Naturalista – Iggdrasil

I’ve just bought a lovely new pair of shoes.
Aren’t they nice?

The reason I thought they were worth mentioning is that El Naturalista go to great lengths to make their shoes as eco-friendly as possible. In their eco-policy they explain how they use recycled rubber for the soles; a product which would normally be classed [...]

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