Loafers for Agnes Dreary

I have made a couple of pairs of loafers for Agnes Dreary. The first one is made of silver colored leather.

The picture below shows the insoles and upper parts, The sides are straight pieces and in the picture, they are much wider than needed. I prefer to leave some extra just to be sure (it is easy to cut it off when attaching the uppers.


I used silver colored thread to sew the pieces together. The thread was a bit slippery, so I glued the ends inside just to be sure.


Finally, I glued the uppers in place and used brown leather for the outer soles. The heels are made of one layer of that same leather. The strap is glued in place.



The other pair is made of dark brown suede. The first picture shows the uppers sewn together.



The pictures for silver loafers do not show how the uppers are glued in place, so here it is.



When making the heels, it is a good idea to glue a larger part in place and then trim it when the glue is dry. This way, the heel is just the right size.



Here is the finished pair.




Original Finnish posts: January 26, 2008 and April 26, 2009

Shoes for Pullip

Stine pointed out in her comment to my post about Tiny Betsy that the pattern for Tiny Betsy shoes will work for Pullip as well. I haven't tried that as I hadn't even thought about it, but those shoes are so simple that even if the pattern doesn't fit directly, it will be easy to modify it.

Original Finnish post is here.

Just a little note

I have made some changes in the blog layout. The most notable change is that there are advertisements between posts. I'm trying to keep the "annoyance factor" low, so it's only going to be text ads, no huge pictures or banners. Another addition is the PayPal donation button in the sidebar. If you find the instructions useful and feel like making a small donation, it would be much appreciated.


Original Finnish post is here.

Part III of the video

This was originally supposed to be a three-part video, but as I haven't finished the shoes yet, I decided to post the progress so far after the second part.



Original Finnish post is here.

Etsy

I put for sale into Etsy some things I have made earlier. There are also a couple of card woven bands made of sewing thread, which are suitable for miniature projects, and a couple of Barbie sized belts made of card woven band.

There will probably be more miniature card woven bands, because I'm experimenting with different colors and patterns. It's just so slow with thin sewing thread. On the other hand, a Barbie belt isn't very long, so it is easy to use the same colors for different patterns as there is no point setting everything up just for one short piece.


Original Finnish post is here.

Part II of the video

Here is the second part of making shoes for a Sybarite. If this seems like slow progress, I'd like to point out that this video was edited from 30 minutes of video and even that is only part of the time I spent for these stages as the camera was not filming all the time (I just filmed the parts I thought would be informative).



Here is an additional little clip of footage not included in the video above. This shows in more detail how to bend the inner sole into the correct shape before the glue has had time to set.



Original Finnish post is here.

Now even in video

I decided to try filming some of the stuff I do. The first video is now uploaded in YouTube. There is no sound and editing is not very professional, but I'm sure the quality will improve as I get more experience on this.



Original Finnish post is here.