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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 side-seam moccashoes for women
    • How to make sweet little shoes with ankle straps
    • How to make warm boots for little cold feet
    • How to Make a Felted Side-Seam Moccasin-Boot
    • Sandals from The Do-It-Yourself Shoe Book
    • 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
    • How to make lasts using homemade playdough, sand and Peltex interfacing
    • Directions for making double-soled moccasins
    • Brendan’s Leather Book sandal-making chapter
    • Strap sandal directions from How to Make Shoes by Christine Lewis-Clark
    • Free Medieval Shoemaking Book!
    • How to make a Renaissance-Faire boot using the duct tape or the pattern method
    • Patterns and directions for making “first footsteps” toddler shoes
  • Blog
  • About
  • Shop
  • Tutorials
    • Tutorial: how to make side-seam moccashoes for women
    • How to make sweet little shoes with ankle straps
    • How to make warm boots for little cold feet
    • How to Make a Felted Side-Seam Moccasin-Boot
    • Sandals from The Do-It-Yourself Shoe Book
    • 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
    • How to make lasts using homemade playdough, sand and Peltex interfacing
    • Directions for making double-soled moccasins
    • Brendan’s Leather Book sandal-making chapter
    • Strap sandal directions from How to Make Shoes by Christine Lewis-Clark
    • Free Medieval Shoemaking Book!
    • How to make a Renaissance-Faire boot using the duct tape or the pattern method
    • Patterns and directions for making “first footsteps” toddler shoes
  • Blog

Simple Shoemaking

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

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  • Here are the completed little shoes inspired by the designs in the book “Mystical Stitches”. I hope they will be long-treasured by my friend and her baby.
  • Have you ever been so excited to try out an idea that came to you as you were going to sleep? I couldn’t bother to brush my teeth before seeing if my home sewing machine could stitch through 3 layers of demin sandwiched between motorcycle tire inner tube-it could! That means I can go ahead with my plans for making moccashoes from these two materials-they would be suitable for wearing in places where fleas transmit diseases through the soles of bare feet.
  • I have many random pieces from “first footsteps” shoemaking kits, so I decided to offer FREE kits made from these pieces to those who order my book “How to Make Ecological Moccashoes in all sizes.” Here’s the link to the first video that shows how to make them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzVXBDL_TYk. And, to see what kits are available now, please go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/simpleshoemaking?
  • My latest blog post has directions and pattern for making this Scandinavian leather ornament - at simpleshoemaking.com. What color would you dye your bird?
  • It’s not sandal weather where I live-these are sandals that were made by a gardening intern at the community I am a member of-they just got finished! I love the two colors and hemp stitching-what two colors would your sandals have?
  • I need a new pair of boots and noticed this derby shoe in my “to-do someday” basket-the second shoe hadn’t been assembled. So I’m turning them into boots by adding a higher top. I’ll do some creative stitching to attach the top. Hopefully I’ll post a photo of the finished boots soon! Do you have any shoes that you would like to turn into boots?
  • It’s about time that I chose a photo of a shoe to post! I’m digging way back to a page in a book I wrote twenty years ago. It shows a stitch-down shoe that has a moccasin-style upper. I cut the versatile top-line wide at the half-way line, then stitched on an appliquéd tab. I love having spaces for embellishment! How would you embellish a tab?!
  • Here’s the best bookmark ever, and you can make one too! I ordered the leather cutting die from “whiskytime” etsy shop. I got the set of letters with great holder from emilycraftsupplies etsy shop. To order letters, it seems that they are measured by the “tallest” letters such as “l” and “b” instead of “short” letters such as “a” and “c”. I have a Vevor press for pressing the letters into the bookmark. It’s so much fun!
  • Wouldn’t you love to create such imaginative shoes for your child?! This pair of moccashoes was made by Stephanie from France for her daughter. She chose to make a center-seam pair, perhaps because of the nice curve over the toes. Don’t you think the heel cover adds flair to the shoes?
  • I have many random First Footsteps vamps, heel pieces and soles, so I’ve decided to sell the kits with a different color for each upper piece. To unify them I’m adding circles of color from the opposite moc to each of their vamps.  These kits will be paired, at no charge, with my book “How to Make Ecological Moccashoes for All Sizes of Feet.” By making these little moccashoes,  you will know how to make them in all sizes. Find this kit and book combination in my etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1286527656/moccashoe-making-kit-how-to-make
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