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FOR FUN OR PROFIT, LEARN HOW TO MAKE ECOLOGICAL SIMPLE SHOES AND SANDALS

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  • Tutorials
    • Tutorial: how to make one-piece moccashoes for women
    • How to make warm boots for little cold feet
    • How to Make a Felted Side-Seam Moccasin-Boot
    • How to make a Roman and a Roman Mary Jane sandal
    • Making straps and attaching buckles
    • Leather scraps into bracelets
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Simple Shoe Making
    • How to make a nofomoc simple shoe
    • How to make the derby shoe
    • How to make sandals part one
    • How to make sandals part two
    • How to Make Soles with an Edge!
    • Introduction to Three Styles of Boots from How to Make Simple Shoes for Women
    • How to do the two-needle running stitch – also known as the simultaneous running stitch
    • How to Make the Chukka Moccasin
  • Resources
    • Directions for making double-soled moccasins
    • Strap sandal directions from How to Make Shoes by Christine Lewis-Clark
    • Two methods for making Renaissance Faire boots
    • How to make lasts from playdough and peltex
    • Primitive Shoes by Margrethe Hald – free!
  • Blog
  • About
  • Workshops
  • Store
  • Tutorials
    • Tutorial: how to make one-piece moccashoes for women
    • How to make warm boots for little cold feet
    • How to Make a Felted Side-Seam Moccasin-Boot
    • How to make a Roman and a Roman Mary Jane sandal
    • Making straps and attaching buckles
    • Leather scraps into bracelets
  • Videos
    • Introduction to Simple Shoe Making
    • How to make a nofomoc simple shoe
    • How to make the derby shoe
    • How to make sandals part one
    • How to make sandals part two
    • How to Make Soles with an Edge!
    • Introduction to Three Styles of Boots from How to Make Simple Shoes for Women
    • How to do the two-needle running stitch – also known as the simultaneous running stitch
    • How to Make the Chukka Moccasin
  • Resources
    • Directions for making double-soled moccasins
    • Strap sandal directions from How to Make Shoes by Christine Lewis-Clark
    • Two methods for making Renaissance Faire boots
    • How to make lasts from playdough and peltex
    • Primitive Shoes by Margrethe Hald – free!
  • Blog
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Simple Shoemaking

Simple Shoemaking

FOR FUN OR PROFIT, LEARN HOW TO MAKE ECOLOGICAL SIMPLE SHOES AND SANDALS

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  • This pattern has been waiting for a decade for me to make a mock-shoe and try it out. So today I began the adventure, as I prepare to move my shoemaking studio to a maker space in Orange MA, a nearby town. Hopefully I will soon have a shoe to show you - or not,  all my adventures do not arrive at their destination.. #minimalistshoes #handmadeshoes #makerspaces #womencrafters #craftbusinessideas
  • One more child’s one-piece moccashoe! It has an appliqué on the flap and a tie made from a t-shirt strip. These shoes are easy and quick to make, and children can help with the stitching—#minimalistshoes #makersmovement #makeshoes #ecologicalshoes #makemoccasins#
  • This shoe shows permanent marker on leather. If the leather doesn’t have a plastic topcoat, the markers work great and lasts as long as the shoe! #diyshoes #minimalistshoes #makersgottamake #recyclereducereuse #makechildren shoes #makeshoes
  • Here’s the completed felted wool and inner tube shoe.  It’s totally ecological, naturally foot-shaped, comfortable, fun and could be locally-made by you - what’s not to love! #makersgonnamake#minimalistshoes #childrensshoes#makeshoessimple
  • Here’s an ecological children’s one-piece moccashoe almost finished—it’s made from a felted wool coat with an inner tube sole -plus a bit of embroidery floss. I will soon be posting directions for making these cozy shoes! #childrens shoes#make kids shoes #minimalistshoes #makersmovement #ecological shoes #childrens footwear
  • I was cleaning my bulletin board recently and noticed this juxtaposition for the first time- I always keep this photo to remind me of the importance of shoes - its a photo of a refugee child receiving a new pair of shoes after WWII — the other is me after being handed my adopted daughter about 35 years ago—#shoemaking#how make shoes #minimalist shoes #ecological shoes#ecological fashion
  • As my awareness has grown of all the non-recyclable components of most manufactured shoes, I have become concerned about another object destined for the landfill or incinerator- plastic political signs. There are probably hundreds of thousands of these signs in yards all across the USA.  My granddaughter and I turned a flexible plastic sign inside-out and found that it provided the perfect surface for adhesive-backed vinyl lettering and artwork!
  • The third thing you can do with a drill press - I am not a leather stamper or carver, so I don't know if inserting a stamp into a drill press offers an advantage or not, but if I ever need to stamp something I think I'll try using it. I'm wondering if it might offer more visibility of where the stamp is placed than stamping manually does. Have you done any leather stamping? I purchased a stamped and carved bracelet years ago, telling myself that it would motivate me to learn..funny the rationalizations we come up with...
  • The second thing you can do with a drill press: Here I have inserted a burnisher from Weaver Leather into my press-it even fits through the hole in the table for more stability. Just brush on some water and Tokonole to create a lovely edge to the sandal sole.#handmade shoes#handmadesandal#minimalistshoes#ecologicalshoes#ecofriendly
  • This is the first of three posts that show what you can do with a drill press from harbor freight- here it is shown making 00-size stitching holes. You can put even smaller bits or stitching machine needles into the press to make tiny holes- all the way through thick layers of leather. How would you imagine using tiny holes in leather work?
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