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All the lovely ladies have handbags that are out of fashion, torn, frayed or just lost their temper. I suggest giving a second life to your handbag. Everyone has long known that how many home slippers you don’t keep at home, but as soon as the holiday arrives and a lot of guests come, there is absolutely no slap! Let's sew from old handbags beautiful, fashionable home slippers.

flip flops from an old handbag


For making home slippers you will need (calculation is given below):
1.Old leather (faux) handbag.
2. Fur (fur coat from the roller) or any other.
3. Dense material.
4. Felt-tip pen.
5. Paper (for pattern).
6. Knitting threads in bright colors (any).
7. Simple threads + needle + scissors + centimeter.
8 Sewing machine (everything can be done manually).

Directions for work. We take an old unnecessary handbag.

flip flops from an old handbag

flip flops from an old handbag


And we begin to work on it! To get started, take any of your shoes and make patterns on a piece of paper. Simply draw a pencil around the sole of the shoe on a piece of paper and cut out the pattern. I slightly increased the pattern, because in the process of sewing it decreases. Measure the top with a centimeter in three places of rise and draw the top blank.

flip flops from an old handbag


You will get a footprint and the top semi-oval. Then we take a felt-tip pen of any color, but that the trace of a picture on your handbag would be visible. I took the white one. My bag is big, so I drew the sole on the sides of the bag, by the way, there is the thickest leather.

flip flops from an old handbag


After we draw the outline, we cut it out.

flip flops from an old handbag


We get a sole for a slap, not wet, washable and light.

flip flops from an old handbag


But in order for the foot to be soft and warm, two more layers of the same traces should be made. It’s better to put on the skin, whatever it is soft, holofiber, syntepol, fur, the choice is yours.

flip flops from an old handbag


I made a pattern from a paint roller coat.

flip flops from an old handbag

flip flops from an old handbag


The third layer needs practical, strong, dark, not clinging to the legs

flip flops from an old handbag


I made a pattern from an old jacket.

flip flops from an old handbag

flip flops from an old handbag

flip flops from an old handbag


After all the patterns have been cut out, it is necessary to overlay the cloth pattern, no matter what the fabric is falling in, or overcast manually.

flip flops from an old handbag


After cutting out all three patterns, collect them in layers.

flip flops from an old handbag


Lower skin, medium fur, upper fabric.

flip flops from an old handbag


Chipping them with safety pins, in any form we make stitches of all three layers together.

flip flops from an old handbag

flip flops from an old handbag


If there is no machine, you can grab your hands in several places. Well, here the bottom is ready. Making the top. We cut out the top according to the pattern. My top of the handbag is trimmed with rhinestones, and I arranged the patterns so as not to damage the rhinestones.

flip flops from an old handbag


Also, that would be rhinestones in an equal amount and location on the top of both patterns.

flip flops from an old handbag


Then we cut out and cut out the fur and fabric patterns.

flip flops from an old handbag


We pass the fabric through the overlock.

flip flops from an old handbag


We also sew fur and fabric patterns in random order on a typewriter or manually.

flip flops from an old handbag


Gently bend the top of the pattern with rhinestones and sew on a typewriter.

flip flops from an old handbag


Then gently we sweep manually in two places the pattern with rhinestones to the one made of fur and material. Everything, preparations are ready. We take a gypsy needle and a thick sewing thread for manually sewing the top and bottom. Whatever the seams are so clearly visible, but at the same time add a bright detail to our slippers, take any bright knitting threads and make them in several layers. I took bright green and folded in three layers. When sewing on the top and bottom of the slap with sewing threads, I passed a triple strip of green knitting threads between them.

flip flops from an old handbag


Everything is ready!

flip flops from an old handbag


The benefit of tailoring such a slap is obvious. Firstly, there is never a lot of slap! There are old handbags in any family, as well as fur and cloth products. So no need to spend money. Secondly, it will be exclusive flip flops, only you! The leather on the handbags is usually soft and light, which means that flip flops will be very comfortable to wear.

flip flops from an old handbag

flip flops from an old handbag


Such flip flops are sewn in just one day. My friends all urgently decided, it is necessary to use the old handbags wallowing on the mezzanine. Yes, and, thirdly, rhinestones give the slippers a slightly oriental look. In the evening light flicker beautifully. So what a beautiful peignoir, flickering slippers and go!
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