Up-cycle your Flip Flops Tutorial

Hello

One can definitely be forgiven for a seemingly sluggish start to the year... have been very absorbed by mummy world, amplified by the School holidays and all its busy-ness. I must have been sounding a tad overwhelmed, well ok, perhaps a lil bananas mad even
because my husband insisted it was time for a lil mummy break.

 So, off I skip for a lil me time combined with some retail therapy. I was actually needing to buy a pair of shoes to wear to a wedding. I was seriously having one of those days where I fell in love with at least three pairs. Eventually I decide to purchase the wedding pumps that I needed. They are bit cute (see happy snap below) yet on a day to day basis impractical for a busy mumma of two. So I reluctantly leave the store still thinking about the super comfy fabric shoes I had just tried on and how I wished to have them too.

Then a little creative design idea occurred to me, that this was simply an opportunity to up-cycle my spare pair of flip flops. Do read below for the tutorial...Thanks for joining me in blog land, Mwah x

Wedding Pumps

 

 UPCYCLED FLIP FLOPS: TUTORIAL

UpCycled Flip Flops

 

Requirements: 

1 x Old or spare pair of Flip Flops

A 1/2 metre of 2 way stretch Netting (this is oodles of fabric, it will make two pairs).

Scissors

 

Pattern: Size 5-9 approx

Cut 3 X 8" by 22" pieces of fabric.

Cut 1 of those (8" by 22") pieces directly in half so that you now have (2 x 8" by 11" slips of fabric).

*If you have a really big sized foot you may need to increase the 22" of fabric length needed to go around your foot. Measure around your toe and ankle just to be sure!

 

Method:

Snip all of the existing straps off your flip flops so that you now have a bare flip flop sole.

Snip existing straps off

Grab 1 x of your 8" by 22" slip of fabric. Hold the outer edges of your fabric length ways and fold edges inwards so that they meet in the middle (this will be the underside of your flip flop strap). Turn over and measure long ways around your foot so that each end of the fabric joins, just near your big toe. Tie a knot with both ends, in the space just before your big and second toe.

Measure strap length

Push both ends of the fabric through the middle top hole of your flip flop and tie a double knot underneath. Leave enough room for your toes to go through at the top. Make your knot very tight and as small as you possibly can by pulling on the fabric tightly. Snip fabric ends off neatly just after the knot. Push knot up into the flip flop hole, mine sat very nicely inside the hole however you could also use a rubber glue to secure/ protect your knot in its place.

Grab your 1 x 8" by 11" slip of fabric, fold the edges of the longest side inwards so that they meet in the middle (this is the underside). Measure the top side over the arch in your foot. Tie one end underneath your flip flop and snip end off (push entire knot into hole) and repeat on other side. *Repeat this entire process on your other foot to complete your other flip flop.

Push secured knots inside each flip flop hole

Super comfy up-cycled Flip Flops/ Thongs