Make your own felt overshoes

What you need:

• daily newspaper
• felt
• scissors
• Sewing machine with needle for very thick fabric or
• fixed needle for sewing by hand
• Pins
• thick pen
• Fixed sewing thread, color to match the felt

Create a sewing pattern for overshoes

As already mentioned above, overshoes made of felt are worn over normal street shoes. These shoes have to be made a lot larger and higher so that the street shoes also fit into the overshoe. Therefore it makes sense to make a paper pattern first.

1. Place a street shoe, which should fit into the felt shoe, on a sheet of the newspaper and draw a thick colored pencil around the sole of the shoe.
2. Take the street shoe away and add a line to the existing shoe outline Add about 5-7 cm, depending on how loosely the overshoes sit on the street shoes should.
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3. Now the upper part of the future slippers is designed, also from paper. To do this, put the street shoe down again and this time place the paper over the front upper part of the shoe. Imagine a slipper and think about the dimensions. The street shoe must come easily into the overshoe, so the upper part of the slipper must be sufficiently large or large. to be sewn.
4. Mark all around on the paper how big the top of the slipper needs to be. Then add a sufficiently large seam allowance to the drawn line.


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5. Cut out your paper pattern and pin the pieces of paper together with pins. Can you slip into the paper pattern without any problems with the street shoe? Then the pattern fits. Otherwise, add a little seam allowance and try again.

How to make the shoe out of felt

1. You can now transfer the perfectly fitting paper pattern for the overshoes onto the felt and cut out the felt.
2. Place the two pattern pieces on top of each other as they are to be sewn together. The upper piece of felt of the slipper is sewn onto the sole. Correct sewing is easiest if you place the later outside of the surface on the later outsole and sew the felt together around this. Then the parts are turned over and the seam should be hidden inside the felt overshoe. Use pins to pin the pieces together. Use the pins to test whether the seams disappear correctly inside the shoe after turning the sewing piece.
3. sew Now firmly tighten the pinned seams with the sewing machine or by hand.