For
spring it looked like it was all
about shoes, while keeping the rest simple. We saw a lot of statement
shoes, to build your look around. For me as a shoe lover these are
the good times, because there will be a lot of beautiful statement
shoe variants for sale. I wanted to create something myself to make
my shoes eye catchers. The transparent fashion is still present.
There are a lot of flower patterns or themes in the new fashion for
summer, so, time to get my Jenny Ellens out of the closet and mix
them with some flowers!
I wanted to design something with
flowers that you can use on different shoes. I´m not too fond of
ankle cuffs, like the metal ones that were in fashion for some time,
but I felt ancle cuffs were the best option for this idea.
I already figured how I
want to wear them. I will make a post, of how I did that, when I have
found the right outfit. The way of wearing it like this, on the Jenny
Ellens, is my favorite. It lets me think of a transparent vase full
of flowers. I just love it!
The
most fun part of these flower ankle cuffs is that they are very easy
to make.
Things
you need:
– I used high quality imitation flowers that I bought in a garden centre.
–
PVC
–
A4 paper
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Scissors
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Square ruler
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Pins
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Push buttons
–
A tool for fixing push
buttons onto a fabric
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Green floral wire
–
Needle and transparent
jewelry wire
–
Pieces of leather or
something similar.
–
A hobby plier
Follow
the steps in my photo collage.
1-4.
the PVC
Start with a piece of
paper and wrap it around your ankle. Use the size of your ankles to
determine the length. Add 6 cm of extra length to the piece of paper,
so that the piece can overlap around the ankle. Cut the paper in the
right length and broadness you want the ankle cuffs to be. I made the
cuffs 7cm broad. Next, pin the paper on the plastic and cut the
plastic in the right size. Of course, you can skip the step with the
paper and start immediately with the plastic.
5-7.
The push buttons
Wrap
the cut plastic around the ankle. Find the place where you want the
pushbuttons to be. It is important that you overlap the ends of the
plastic on the outside of your ankles, because you will fix the
flowers on the overlapping part later. The overlapping part should
come from behind to the outside of the ankle. Also pay attention that
you fix the pushbuttons on the right side of the plastic. I placed
the + buttons on the inside of the overlapping part and the –
buttons on the outside of the part that is underneath. The part that
is underneath should have some extra length left, if you want to
place some extra – buttons on it so you can adjust the size for
different sized shoes or boots. As you can see in step 16, I did that
myself.
8.Cutting
the flowers with the hobby plier.
Cut
the flowers from their stalks. Leave enough of the stalk on the
flower for the flower wire to be wrapped around.
9-11.
Putting the flowers together.
Decide
how you want the small bouquets of flowers to look like before you
start assembling them. You can divide the flowers on color and size
beforehand. This will make it less time consuming to wrap the flowers
together at later steps. Also it will be easier to make the bouquets
almost identical, if that is what you want. Don't forget that the
bouquets have to be in mirror image of each other. Wrap every stalk
with flower wire and leave a surplus of wire for wrapping the flowers
together.
12.
Use some extra wire to wrap all the stalks together for more
sturdiness.
13-
15. Fixing the small bouquets on to the plastic ankle cuffs.
Put
on an ankle cuff to decide the exact place you want to fix on the
bouquet. Place the bouquet on the appropriate place on the plastic.
Cut small pieces of leather (or a different kind of sturdy, flexible
material of your choice) in the size where it will fit on the plastic
behind the bouquets. Then place a piece of leather behind the
plastic. This measure will help the plastic be more sturdy, so it
won't tear from the weight of the bouquet. Fix the bouquets on the
plastic with a needle and (transparent) thread in two places.
Remember that you have to do one of the ankle cuffs in mirror image.
16. The
extra pushbuttons.
You
can fix some extra - pushbuttons on the under part of the
overlapping pieces. So you can wear the cuffs on, for example, wider
ankle boots.
This is the result I'm
looking forward to wearing these cuffs myself. I wish you a fun
experience making these! How do you like them?
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| pictures by: Jelmer steenhuis |
