Ta-daa! This pair isn’t wearable outside, mostly because I made an error in the construction (I am clumsy, and accidentally snipped a little hole in the outer fabric), so I sewed felt slipper-soles onto the bottom. Annoyingly, this took longer than it would have done to glue the rubber soles on, but it meant that [...]
Tag Archive 'boots'
I made another little boot prototype, sort of idly based on the construction of Converse, but developed from my existing shoe pattern. The black stitching lines are the seam allowances, so they’ll be a little more cut-away than they appear. I need to make the curves more shallow, as they’ve come out a bit right-angled [...]
Muslin Boot
Posted in shoes on Aug 21st, 2011
I’ve been thinking about making boots for a little while. I finally decided to stop thinking, start sewing, and see what happened. Some minor tweaks are needed (the uppers don’t fit properly to the insoles for a start), but here is the beginning of some little boots. I have plans for more of a pull-on [...]
Image © Fairysteps These little beauties are a pair of custom made Mustardseed boots, handmade by Fairysteps. I’ve been reading the Fairysteps blog for quite a while now, and every time Ren posts a new pair of shoes I have to keep my fingers crossed that they’re not in my size in order to prevent my [...]
While we were in Totnes, I went to do a little window-shopping. For handmade shoes. We didn’t find Green Shoes (because it turns out that their workshop’s not actually in Totnes but just outside), but we did find Conker. I tried on a couple of different styles to find out what size I need in Conker shoes [...]
Every now and then I have a little look at Clarks Originals, to see what this year’s desert boots are like. (I last wrote about them in 2009.) I may have fallen a little bit in love with this super-girly pink floral Laura Ashley pair. Could they be any more cute? There’s also a men’s desert [...]
Women’s Land Army boot
Posted in exhibitions, shoes on Jan 29th, 2011
The Museum of English Rural Life have an exhibition on at the moment called Land Ladies: women and farming in England, 1900-1954. It’s on until April 19th. The boots above were issued by the Women’s Land Army, and they belonged to Doreen Thorpe who served in Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Derbyshire and Yorkshire. I’m impressed that they’ve [...]
Jeffery~West have done it again. I only went to their website to see whether there was anything left in the sale that was a) in my size and b) purple. (Sadly not, on both counts.) And then I thought I’d just have a little look to see whether there was anything new… which is when [...]
Jeffery-West
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Jan 25th, 2010
My friend Patrick is a Very Bad Influence. We were talking about shoes, and he pointed me in the direction of Jeffery-West. Now we’re both coveting beautiful shoes that we can’t afford – and they aren’t even made in my size! (And I still haven’t saved up enough money to go on a shoemaking course.) [...]
Mmmmm, boots.
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Nov 30th, 2009
It’s a good job I’m not a goth any more. Nor a costumer, nor simply a collector of amazing shoes. Otherwise I’d have to buy these: Probably in the black velvet. (Available here, for £60. They’re by Pleaser.) Seeing these has put me straight into the mood for wearing the most enormous skirt, and a [...]