Boots from an old sweater - a miracle new thing

The DIY ( Do It Yourself ) movement has been rapidly gaining momentum lately. Homegrown geniuses invent more and more new ways to collect a thing from nothing, to turn old junk into another work of art.

Human fantasy is limitless, and it is looking for a way out. Stumbled in the closet on a sweater that has not been worn for ten years ?? Every time they put off his move to the dacha on the back burner? Give it new life - urbanthreads.com offers a tutorial on how to create wonderful, lightweight boots for a dry spring or fall using slippers and an old sweater.

You will need:

# Old house slippers as a base,
# An old sweater with large, puffy sleeves,
# A hot glue gun,
# A tear-off or water-soluble stabilizer (depending on what kind of embroidery or appliqué you will sew on).
Stabilizers keep stitches from falling out on soft sweater fabrics. Similar to domestic interlining. # Application (thermal embroidery) and 2 buttons to decorate our boots,
# Threads, needle and scissors. A sewing machine and the ability to use it will also come in handy.

First of all, cut off the sleeves in the place where they are sewn to the sweater. You should get two long "pipes". Set aside the rest for now, you'll need it later.

Before we glue anything, we must give our sleeves a shape that even remotely resembles a boot.

Take the cut off sleeve and turn it inside out. Put on slippers and try on the future boot on the leg. The wide armhole of the sleeve should be at the bottom, the tapering part at the top. The seam on the sleeve should be located behind the leg - where the heel is.

As you can see, if you just pull the sleeve over your leg, then the shape of the boot will look like a triangle - there is a lot of excess fabric in front. But we need beautifully shaped shoes, don't we? Rotate the fabric so that it sits on your leg. A lot of fabric will need to be pulled off at the back so that it fits snugly around the front of the leg. Pin the sweater in the shape of a leg with needles.

Carefully remove the workpiece and cut off the excess, having previously measured it twice. Sew a sleeve, you can sew on a typewriter. Repeat the manipulations with the second sleeve and the second leg.

Now you need to glue the fabric to the slippers. We apply the still turned-out sleeve to the slipper as shown in the photo. The seam should go behind the foot. Apply glue just above the rubber sole. Start gluing from the seam to be sure that the seam is located in the middle. Because boots are designed for warm and dry weather, do not worry that they will fall apart in the first week of wearing.

Compare the result with the picture and carefully turn it inside out. Let's try it on 🙂

From the remnants of the sweater (from the part with the finished edge), we cut out blanks for the cuffs. You will need a strip 15-20 cm wide, as soon as you cut it off, divide it into 2 equal parts.

If you want, you can add appliqué or embroidery. The author of the idea added thermal embroidery using tear-off and water-soluble stabilizers.

Pin cuffs and sew. Sew on a button as a decoration.

And let the European fashionistas dressing at Dolce and Gaban be envious.

A similar version based on the Puma sneaker is available at www.craftster.org.

Less elegant, masculine version.