DIY- Cat Lady Shoes

Hey lovelies,

Today I thought I would show you something I've been working on for the past few days, cat lady shoes!
I picked up some plain black loafer-style shoes from primark a week or so ago for the grand total of £4.00 with the intention of customising them somehow. I had seen a few pairs with writing on each toe, like these by UNIF, or these from YRU, and have been lusting over this pair of Charlotte Olympia flats;

unfortunately, I don't have £485.00 for a pair of whimsical shoes, and even if I did they're now sold out. 

So I thought I would try my hand at making a pair of my own.

For this I used; 

• 1 pair cheap black flats
• 1 thick embroidery needle
• length of blue embroidery thread (for the writing)
• length of pink embroidery thread (for the nose & tongue)
• length of white embroidery thread (for the ears, mouth & whiskers)
• length of green thread (for the eyes)
• scissors

The first thing I did was map out a rough idea of what I was going to do on some scrap paper, 

 Initial Design

Blank Canvas...erm...shoes.

I mapped out my design onto the shoes using purple liquid eyeliner (not the most professional way, I'm sure, but it showed up really well on the black fabric)

All that was left to do was start sewing, I used a standard back stitch for all of it, nothing too fancy.

 Progress

 Very slow progress

The finished product! These probably took about 3/4 hours to make all together, but I embroidered while watching tv so time flew by, I also got one or two blisters and had to sacrifice one of my fingernails to the sewing gods (RIP fingernail) but it's a small price to pay to be able to walk around in shoes that fully explain my love of cats.

Much love 

lakencake

xoxo