Greetings Hivers.
I believe we are all doing very fine. I promised to join the ongoing contest in Hivenaija and though I am too late, I still wanna share my work. I have been pretty occupied throughout the week, this is the only time and chance I have left to do this.
I haven't had the opportunity to sit down and be taking shots and steps of every DIY stuff I have been doing, but this particular one I was able to take sometimes ago is what I will be sharing.
Though I have used these images before it was for a completely different purpose and for the purpose of this DIY contest, I am sharing this again.
I had a lot of old Jean at home and I didn't just wanna dispose of them, so I thought of what I could do with it. I decide to make bags and flipflop with it. I had made a bag with it but I preferred to share the flipflop procedure.
I am a Nigerian, residing in Akwa Ibom State. I don't really stick to one thing as I have a lot of things doing, I can do many things ranging from baking, sewing, braiding, cooking, designing, creating, knitting, etc. Below is one of the few things I have made with my hands, no machine or whatsoever.
I will show you the steps and procedures on how I made this
Materials Used
- An old jean trouser
- A pair of the shoe pad
- Scissor
- Razor
- Needle
- Thread
- Shoe needle
- Fancy stone
- Chalk
Working tools
How did I get this done or perhaps how did I start it?
Below are a few shots from the process and a bit of an explanation.
Process and Procedures ~ "HOW TO"
- First, all i had to do was take out my old Jean trouser and cut out its legs and discard the body. All I needed for making the shoes was the trouser's legs, that alone as enough.
After getting my Jean material, I cut it out into a flat layer, I did this with the help of a scissor.
Then I measured out the shoe on the jean material using the shoe pad or shoe sample
When I got the shape and size of the shoe I was about making, I cut out the jean material to the exact size of the shoe I measured and needed.
Then I started sewing. I attached the jean material unto the shoe pad and sown. I used white thread to sew.
After I was done with the sewing which took a greater part of my time; due to how tedious the work was. I cut out the remaining rope or thread from my sewing process.
- Then I washed the shoe and added color; blue. This was to give the jean material a better look
Being that the jean trouser was an old and worn out one so the color had faded. So I brighten the color again by adding the blue color to it while washing in water.
- And finally, I attached my fancy Pearl Stone to the shoe to give it a better and amazing look.
I recycled old Jean trousers into a new pair of shoes.
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