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In Iceland the majority of people remove their shoes upon entering their home, business etc. I now do this myself and as it's summer it's too warm to wear socks in the house, so I made my own in-house flip flops.

Posted by northernstar from Flateyri, Westfjords, Iceland • Published 21st June 2008 • See northernstar's 35 projects »

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Step 1
Take the cardboard backing from any A4 style notepad. Measure out your feet, the width of the pencil if enough of a distance to use.
Step 2
Cut out the shapes, it doesn't matter if they are not perfect. If you want you can make 2 sets for each flipper, to make them thicker. I didn't.
Step 3
Take your fabric you are using to line the flipper and measure out each individual piece, cut out and pin to the cardboard flipper.
Step 4
Sew the liner to the cardboard flipper, be careful as I broke my needle by moving the cardboard too much! doh

*If you have made 2 sets of cardboard for each flipper, you can glue the second cardboard piece to the first one after you have sewn the liner and band on
Step 5
Measure the fabric you are going to use for the band across the top of your foot. I used doubled over felt.
Sew any edges of the band you need to before adding to flipper.
Step 6
Attach the band to the flipper, I machine sewed it on.
You may want to try the band on your foot and then pin it in place, just to make sure you are giving yourself enough room.

*If you have made 2 sets of cardboard for each flipper, you can glue the second cardboard piece to the first one after you have sewn the liner and band on
Step 7
Add any embellishments you like or leave it plain, whatever :D
Step 8
Wear and enjoy.

If I was to make them again, I would avoid sweater fabric, it just stretched and moved all over the place when I was sewing it. Also I would go for adding the two layers of cardboard flippers :D

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melody j. 1st May 2009

I like it! And I have 2 things that would make it even EASIER:
1)Whenever you trace the cardboard, its a lot easier and more exact if you use a SHOE and not just your feet
2)pin the fabric to the cardboard when you sew. It will make it so it wont move around and stuff

northernstar · Flateyri, Westfjords, IS · 35 projects 19th August 2008

haha how would you explain that if she awoke!

You could take one of her smaller shoes, like a trainer and outline that, then make a smaller outline inside the lines a little?