I thought I would just cover his feet in yellow felt and paint on some shoe laces. Then I thought I could glue on thread or string and make faux shoe laces. Then I decided I would make his shoes like real shoes, in separate pieces, with tongues, and all that. Then I decided to even actually lace them with thread laces.
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| The white felt is for the soles. |
So these are the 'big yella work boots' Dale Leroy ended up with.
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| They aren't removable. Sorry Ivy. I glued them on. |
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| His pants are pushed up so you can see his shoes. I haven't tried pulling them down over the shoes yet. They may not fit! |
I even remembered at the last minute that Dad,who always replaced the laces that his 'big yella work boots' came with right away, with leather laces,used to wrap the laces around his ankles a couple of times before tying the shoes.
The shoes took me a while, but I did do one wise thing I usually don't do. I made templates for the second shoe from the pieces of the first shoe, once I had fine tuned it.
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| He kind of has Frankenstein feet now. |
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| You can see some glue. This is why I have only made Caucasian people so far. I sort of make the felt moldable with the glue when I make the hands, especially.The glue blends into the pale felt,but would show with darker felt. Ivy had a costume she was working on at college, and had me experiment with mixing paint with the glue(Fabri-Tac). It doesn't work! |
Of course, since the feet weren't exactly the same, the shoe didn't fit the other foot the way the original had fit the first foot!
So the one foot looks a little wider than the other one. But I have feet like that, so why can't Dale Leroy? He's my brother, after all!
