Shoes for work

My manager at work, loved my Adventure Time shoes.  She liked them enough that when the company held a craft competition for customers (and one for staff) she said I should do shoes.

I wondered if it would work with fabric as well as paper so decided to give it a shot.  I thought since it was to be made from fabric, I'd make it look like a Crazy Quilt. Crazy quilting is something I did when I worked in a local living museum called Kings landing. It's the only kind of quilting I will do ( my mother and sister are both quilters and that is just too many for one family).

This is a quilt block I did over a summer of working at the museum. It going to be turned into a pillow.

Anyway, this competition took place just before Christmas, and  so many people were doing Christmas stuff that I decided I would find bright  spring-y fabrics and things to do my shoes.

Before:

 

After:

And the sides:

Sadly, Christmas was insanely busy around here, and then the flu ravaged my home, by the time I had these finished, it was too late to mail them in with the other employees pieces and then I could not find where to do the online entry.  So I missed the submission date :/

BUT

They will be on display for a few months at our store, so at least they wont go to waste!

Speaking of waste, get a size larger shoe if you do these with fabric.  Unlike the paper versions, the fabric actually shrank the shoes a bit and now they don't fit.  Whomp.

Lesson learned!

Adventure Time

My Best friend and fellow crafty person was up today for a visit from Saint John.  We decided to get crafty and follow a tutorial online for making custom comic book shoes.. Now these are far from done, but its a start.

It starts with a pair of shoes and an old comic book.  Now being the nerd that I am, I was not about to sacrifice any of MY comic books, but my friend still had a Free Comic Book day Adventure Time comic, and since I love Adventure Time, that suited me fine.

So here are the toes. Finn and Lady Rainacorn (and Princess Bubblegum).

The outside of the Lady Rainacorn shoe. Featureing a chimney cleaning gone wrong, BMO the computer, Marceline, the vampire queen and princess bubblegum.

And the inside of The Lady Rainacorn shoe. Mostly Finn, Jake, Bubblegum and BMO.

And the inside if the Finn Shoe, with Finn and Jake, the Adventure Time logo and BMO (again)

And the other side.  Which has mostly Finn and Jake, and a special guest appearace from LSP (Lumpy Space Princess) who is my fave.

I still have to add a few extra layers of sealer, and some ribbon to hide my rough edges, but I thought I would share our adventure in making comic book shoes.  My Friend by the way, made Sailor Moon shoes. :)

The tutorial we used can be found here.