In Iceland the majority of people remove their shoes upon entering their home, business etc. I now do this myself and as it's summer it's too warm to wear socks in the house, so I made my own in-house flip flops.
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Make Your Own Flip Flops
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Take the cardboard backing from any A4 style notepad. Measure out your feet, the width of the pencil if enough of a distance to use.
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Cut out the shapes, it doesn't matter if they are not perfect. If you want you can make 2 sets for each flipper, to make them thicker. I didn't.
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Take your fabric you are using to line the flipper and measure out each individual piece, cut out and pin to the cardboard flipper.
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Sew the liner to the cardboard flipper, be careful as I broke my needle by moving the cardboard too much! doh
*If you have made 2 sets of cardboard for each flipper, you can glue the second cardboard piece to the first one after you have sewn the liner and band on -
Measure the fabric you are going to use for the band across the top of your foot. I used doubled over felt.
Sew any edges of the band you need to before adding to flipper. -
Attach the band to the flipper, I machine sewed it on.
You may want to try the band on your foot and then pin it in place, just to make sure you are giving yourself enough room.
*If you have made 2 sets of cardboard for each flipper, you can glue the second cardboard piece to the first one after you have sewn the liner and band on -
Add any embellishments you like or leave it plain, whatever :D
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Wear and enjoy.
If I was to make them again, I would avoid sweater fabric, it just stretched and moved all over the place when I was sewing it. Also I would go for adding the two layers of cardboard flippers :D
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Posted By:northernstar »
June 21, 2008 23:10
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Sugarlishes
22 Jun 03:25
o.o omg this is the most wicked-est thing ever! i love flip flops and never thought about making them. You are my hero! So many ideas fill my head :D ha ha! Thanks!
Cat Morley
22 Jun 07:25
That is such a good idea, my feet get too hot in socks too but we have wood floors, so these would be really handy for me! Thanks for sharing :)
northernstar
22 Jun 09:48
cool :D I was going to add too that you could entirely make these with just glue instead of sewing. I just didn't, coz I didn't think of it then :)
Kiki
09 Jul 01:44
Awesome! We have hardwood floors, like Cat, and I don't like wearing shoes or socks. I'm going to make a "glue" version of these :P
Gary L.
19 Aug 19:46
I love them! Mite make a pair for my sis for christmas!!! how will i get an outline of a foot without her knowing.... While she sleeps!
northernstar
19 Aug 20:53
haha how would you explain that if she awoke! :P
You could take one of her smaller shoes, like a trainer and outline that, then make a smaller outline inside the lines a little?
melody j.
01 May 11:15
I like it! And I have 2 things that would make it even EASIER:
1)Whenever you trace the cardboard, its a lot easier and more exact if you use a SHOE and not just your feet
2)pin the fabric to the cardboard when you sew. It will make it so it wont move around and stuff