I had been looking for low heels lately, but couldn't find any with a cute design... Most of the cute ones I'd seen were for kids and too small for me. 😜
I ended up buying these shoes at Yellow. Even though I more or less like the design, I like the fact that the heel isn't that high and that the sole is really comfortable. I also wanted the shoes' color to be beige, even though I'm not fond of its "denim" texture.
But I still decided to purchase them because I had planned to decorate the shoes if I couldn't find a pair that perfectly fit my taste but was really comfortable to walk in.
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I should learn how to sew, but each time I tried I was way too impatient and it didn't end up looking too great. I remember one time I attempted to make a shirt smaller, but the thread made a lot of knots in the machine and that sewing seam.. thank God it was only an old pajama shirt.
I'll have to learn how to sew (for real) one day since I know I can't treat my mom like a sewing slave.
Anyway here's the material we used (ended up only using gingham ribbon and the two lace ribbons):
The base I wanted (brown-beige gingham ribbon + ivory lace):
After being sewn (by hand):
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/!\ Since the ribbon covers a part of my feet that the shoes doesn't, we should have left some free space before cutting the ribbon, but we didn't. So when we pinned (with needles) the ribbon on the shoes before sewing and I tried the, the ribbon was too tight. Since the ribbon was already cut, we couldn't cover the entire shoe on both sides (at least this little error isn't really noticeable except if you look closely on the sides of the shoe).
I don't know if you can see, but we added another layer
of lace to cover part of the shoe (to get the scallop trim).
Now sewing the button on the bow (these were bought after taking the picture of our material):
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Result:
Shoe on my right shows the lace more, but that's ok.
Kind of wished the base ribbon covered more of the toe part
cause I think it shows too much denim, but that's also fine...
This started on the 21st of April, and they were finished on the 28th... One reason is that I had made a design and we had worked on it, but when it ended up looking hideous when my mom sewed that said design on the shoes...
I had this design in mind
This is how it looked like when the same lace was
pinned with the needles on the shoes (before sewing).
This looks horrible (even though I still approved for them to be sewn). I'm a fool for noticing it only after they were sewn on the shoes...
Looking back at the pictures, I think the difference is due to following the ribbon hem to fix the lace on the shoe (second picture) instead of following the shoe contour (first picture).
Tried with ribbons to make it prettier, but it was impossible to fix its ugliness:
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That's when we removed the lace and I went to buy supplemental material because I didn't want to risk another fail again and waste efforts and time.
I had bought the bows first but was quite unsure whether I liked them or not (I bought them mainly cause the color fit with my shoes and they were cheap) but when I combined them with the buttons at Michaels, I really liked the style. I would say they look more chic than cute, but I still love them. I'm really satisfied on how they turned out, especially when I thought I had wasted a new pair of shoes (ofc if you don't like the final result you probably think the shoes are still a waste lol).
Thanks for reading 👀
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Other designs I had also tested (putting them here in case I refer to this post in the future for inspiration):
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