Weaving

I went on a bit of a tangent last week. I just got so excited about my little shoe keeper and my excursion to Leflers and NWS Leather that I couldn't help myself. I wanted to play with leather moulding and weaving and it all came out in this shoe last week.

I started off by stretching strips of leather across the shoe keeper and securing them with masking tape to keep it tight.

As I went along I learnt a lot about the kind of shapes needed to cover the shoe. Strips going up the foot needed to increase in width from the toe, and strips going across the foot had to be wide at the sides of the foot and narrower over the top.

Once I'd finished the weaving I was faced with the dilema of removing my work in one piece. So paranoid, I covered the whole thing in tape and sewed a stitch around the base of the shoe using the leather machine (a thoroughly scary thing that takes off...)

My patterns were a little off for the rest of this shoe- i think my quarters are too short... and still I have no sole. But otherwise a good little tangent to follow. More designs to come.