wellingtons in leather

My youngest needed new shoes. Well, she would have been fine wearing wellingtons all day long, but I guess it's not the most healthy footwear. I knew I had to convince her somehow to give the new shoes a chance, so I put a wellington boot on one of the shoes and matching rain clouds on the other.

Pattern is from klimperklein. A very thorough e-book and the pattern fits really well.

strawberry baby shoes

Strawberries were the theme of our birth notifications and baby gifts (doopsuiker) almost one year ago. Now our youngest is busy crawling and standing up so finally she needed leather shoes - following up the strawberry theme:

The leather I got from  manu-faktur.eu, where you can get all kinds of sizes and colours.

I used bra-straps of an old bra of mine as elastics...

The colour scheme is just adorable, I love the red combined with blue and turquoise and they just look awesome with this body dress:

exploring the leather world

For my leather range I started out with 4-5 pieces bought on a market. I originally wanted to sew a handbag from it - alas, what was needed much more urgently were shoes for my daughter. I took the measurements and according to some instructions I found on   hobbyschneiderin I managed my first pair of shoes. Parts of the appliqué were a bit tricky to sew, especially with my old Privileg sewing machine, but my daughter loved her new red leather shoes.

The second pair I was super happy with the appliqué, however the material, leather from an old pair of leather trousers of my mum's, was far from ideal for shoes: too thin, too soft...

So for the next pair I ordered leather from manu-faktur - such a great selection of colours they have! Dear daughter had just started her purple phase, so purple had to be part of the design at least. Pippi Longstocking was a favourite, too, so out came these

Da ich für Pippis Haare kein oranges Leder hatte, hab ich das rote einfach umgedreht. Die raue Seite ist etwas heller und passt ganz gut.

with monkey ribbon

They turned out fine although the fittimg could have been more perfect...

For the most recent pair I decided to buy a pattern from a professional, so I got another  E-book by Klimperklein. They got a generous pass from dear daughter ;)