How to make tiger shoes

Materials: scissors, painting cloth

Steps:

Playing the gusset

The first process is to play the gusset. The gusset is an essential raw material for making tiger shoes, the soles and uppers are made of it, but the gusset is not readily available, it is made by the women themselves. First on the table or coffee table set a board, the board requires flat, no cracks, and then lay a layer of paper on the board, and then a layer of rags made of flour paste glued together, the rags paste to be flat, otherwise made out of the soles or uppers will be uneven, the child is not comfortable to wear. The cloth is placed in a ventilated area to dry, and the gusset is removed.

Cutting out the gussets

First, make a mold of the soles and cut out the gussets to be used for the soles. Generally, 3-4 layers are used for one sole, and then 6-8 pieces of gussets should be cut out for one pair of tiger shoes. Then the gussets of the two soles are folded together and simply sewn with a thick hemp rope, which is the prototype of the sole.

Wrapping the edges and spreading the soles Wrapping the edges and spreading the soles are the beautifying treatment of the soles. The width of the cloth used for wrapping the edges is about 2 centimeters, and the color is lighter, mostly light-colored, small-square fabrics. When cutting the strips of cloth, you should pay extra attention, do not follow the texture of the fabric, but with the grain of the cloth at an angle of 45 degrees, cut diagonally, otherwise the strip of cloth is narrower, easy to take off the line. When wrapping the edges, you should follow the direction of the soles, evenly and smoothly wrap the cloth around the soles, and the width of the cloth left on both sides is the same, so it is considered to be kung fu to the end.

Spreading the sole is to spread two layers of broken cloth on the bottom side, and then a layer of solid-colored soft cloth, so that the soles are full and powerful, beautiful and generous. The last layer of soft cloth should be slightly larger than the sole, and when sewing, the edge of the cloth should be folded inward so that it is slightly smaller than the sole, and then sewed with a small and even stitch.

Narrowing the soles

After you have done the above preparatory work, you can start to narrow the soles. Don't look at the soles being stepped on

under the feet, only walking and lifting the feet of the moment, can show a little bit of face, but the soles of the thread flower but a great deal of care. Selection of line to choose and sole color contrast obvious, but also with the coordination of the color line, the color line is generally by a number of fine line twisted together thick line. Because of the thicker soles, the soles will often use a needle cone, needle cone zapping holes, large needle lead, pulling the line, tight rope in one fell swoop. Thread flowers can also be made into various shapes, diagonal arrangements, crosshairs, diamonds, and all kinds of patterns that can be imagined. A woman with a good mind will always produce a unique and enviable thread flower.

Making shoe uppers

The third process is to make shoe uppers, which are also made from gussets. The shape of the upper is cut out on the gusset using a model of the upper as a mold. An upper is sewn from two gussets of the exact same size and shape, so we have to cut four gussets for the upper. Cut them out and simply sew them together with the look, then cut them carefully, removing the excess. Note that the back and front of the upper should be left a little extra, about 0.5 cm wider than the look, for the final stitching. The opening being cut is the demarcation line between the front tiger face part and the back of the upper, and when sewn up, these two small pieces make up the tiger face.

Then cut down the surface and lining of the upper than the look. The upper surface is mostly satin, red or green, bright colors; upper lining is cotton, soft and comfortable, elegant colors. Will cut the face and lining with paste glued to the gusset, the position should be aligned, sticky to be flat, the upper surface can only cut the second half, the first half can not paste, because this part of the future to be on the tiger face. Stick well after drying the whole upper cut neatly.

Embroidered tiger face

Tiger face also has the face of the ancestors, the dexterity of the women have long been familiar with them in their hearts, just cut a hand is a vivid shape. The cut-outs are placed on the black cloth used to rust the tiger's face, and the shape is traced with a pen. The face can be embroidered by hand or on a sewing machine, and most people use sewing machines to embroider the face of the tiger, but no matter how they do it, they can't do it without the women's delicate design and dedication.

The embroidery of the tiger's face starts with the nose of the tiger, followed by the eyebrows, eyes, mouth, teeth, and the big "king" character, which will soon appear under the hands of the girls. Finally, they will use the golden silk thread to hook the edge, so that the whole face of the tiger will be more beautiful. Tiger face is the most colorful place of the whole tiger shoes, a few strands of colorful silk thread in a blink of an eye into a vibrant tiger face, snow-white peach nose, black holes in the eyes of the tiger, the pink lotus face, really let people love it. With the change of the years and changes in the circulation of the region, the face shape has become colorful, there is a mother and child tiger, unicorn tiger, the word tiger, bird tiger double happiness, etc., but also in the face of the tiger added a lot of other animals, such as butterflies, dragonflies, magpies, etc., a wide variety of patterns, all in the individual's vision and preferences.

Cut off the embroidered tiger face, cut into the same shape as the front part of the shoe, and then combined with the edge of the tiger face to the shoe. The cloth used for wrapping the tiger's face is basically the same as that used for wrapping the soles of the shoes, but it can be narrower. Put the tiger's face on the front of the upper part of the upper shoe, and then put the wrapping cloth strip on the top of the tiger's face, align the edges, and sew the three together. Sew up the tiger face in the order it goes, including the two tiger ears. Then turn the strip of cloth down and sew it again, this time the needle should not be stuck on the strip of cloth, but rather on the black cloth embroidered with the tiger's face in a tiny way, so that the stitches cannot be seen from the front, and the tiger's head shoes are considered to be exquisitely and authenticly made.

After the good tiger face there is another process is to cover the mouth of the shoe. Covering the mouth of the shoe is actually the upper part of the shoe left as the mouth of the place, also with the same method of wrapping treatment, so that the shoes look neat, beautiful, generous. This way the whole upper part of the shoe is ready.

The upper

The upper front and back

After the soles and uppers are all ready, it is time to sew them together, that is, the upper. First, fold the front of the upper over the tiger's face and sew it together. Then sew the part of the upper that is to be used as the tiger's face to the front of the upper, right next to it.

When attaching the upper, start at the front of the shoe at the tiger's face, stitching evenly and pulling the thread tightly. The bottom edge of the upper can also be folded inward a small slip, in order to make it easier to tie holes. On the upper shoes need needle cone, hemp rope and large needle to cooperate with each other, needle cone tie holes, large needle lead, pulling the line, tight rope in one go. In both sides are up to the middle, the back of the upper than the right amount of sewing up, and then continue to finish the upper.

The tiger's whiskers

The tiger's whiskers are made of colored wool. First choose and tiger shoes color coordination of wool, take about six or seven of a small skein, around the finger a few times, cut and tied on both sides of the tiger's mouth, and trimmed into a pom-pom shape. In a flash, the tiger shoes will have some more spirit. When the child put on the tiger shoes, walking, the two pom-poms made of tiger whiskers up and down quivering, very popular.

After the tiger shoes are done, don't forget to send shoes there are a lot of things to say, send a double not send a single, six pairs, eight pairs of twelve pairs, more easy to good, grandma good shoes can not be sewn with laces, the laces should be allowed to grandma sewing, it is said that this will make the dolls rich double full.