Ruffles and Trim Shoe Refashion

Hi everybody.  I hope you had a great weekend.  I did.  On Saturday, my husband went to work to use the shop to work on one of our vehicles.  I was left home, and my husband said that I didn’t have to clean if I didn’t want to.  (I had literally exhausted myself every day last week from trying to get so much done.  I needed a break, and was glad to take it!)  I finished and knocked out 3 different projects.  This shoe refashion was one of them.  It’s not super original, but I really like how it turned out.

Here’s the before.  I bought these shoes 6 years ago, and they were definitely showing signs of wear.  I have glued down the silver linings a couple times.  It needed it again, so this time I used E6000.  Love that stuff, but can’t stand the smell of it right now. Yuck.

The bows have even been repaired at least once, and were just looking really sad. I was ready for a change.

The bows came off…

I made a tube of satin-y fabric, and flattened it so the seam was in the middle.  Then I gathered it using my easy way to make ruffles, and glued it to the shoe.  Once that was done, I decided I needed some trim.  I got a few inches of trim from Joann’s, treated the ends with Fray Check, and glued the trim on top of the ruffles. 

So for just a few dollars, I ended up with a new look to some very old shoes.  I’ve looked for over a year for new ones, and just haven’t found any I liked.  So I’ll make do for awhile more with the refashioned version! :)
Thanks for reading,
Lynette