If you have to visit often institutions where it is required to change the shoes in the second footwear, reusable boot covers will become the convenient and economical decision. It is especially relevant in the run-up to the New Year's morning performances in kindergartens. Simple covers for footwear can be sewed the hands from two rectangular parts of cut, manually or on the sewing machine. Pick up the washing waterproof material, and self-made boot covers will serve to you long term.
It is required to you
- - waterproof fabric;
- - elastic band;
- - paper;
- - pencil;
- - centimeter;
- - needle;
- - threads;
- - sewing machine;
- - overlok;
- - pin;
- - iron and gauze.
Instruction
1. Pick up suitable working fabric for tailoring of boot covers. For this purpose the old table oilcloth, top of the broken umbrella or the raincoat which has served the term will fit. Material is not required to you much. For example, it is possible to make 7-8 pairs of reusable boot covers of 37 cm of meter of waterproof matter and about 13 cm high.
2. Make simple pattern boot covers in the form of the extended rectangle. Choose height and length of product individually, having tried on paper sample on boot. It is not necessary to carry out cover "in oblipka" - it has to stretch freely. The elastic band on the top edge will make the product size universal.
3. Leave standard allowances for seams of parts in 1.5 cm on each side, and on the top edge provide podgibka for threading of elastic tape in 2 cm.
4. Process edges of rectangles manual or machine blanket stitch. Manually do frequent identical stitches, clasping with thread all cuts of part of cut. Itself can simplify task, having swept off edges future boot covers on overloka.
5. Put the left and right parts on the cross line in half and execute connecting side seam. Use for this purpose simple machine line, or double (direct and the return) manual seam "needle forward". At you rectangular covers preparations have to turn out.
6. In turn unbend the upper edges of each part for performance of podgibka and properly smooth the line of bend by means of iron ruler or just nail. If the working cloth allows processing by the iron, carefully iron out the unbent edge through the humidified gauze.
7. Stitch podgibka of covers direct line close to edge, having left not stitched the site about 1-1.5 cm long. Sweep off the turned-out opening small accurate stitches.
8. You needed only to pass elastic band of the necessary length podgibka, and reusable boot covers are ready.