Things You'll Need:
- 1/2 yard of cotton-duck cloth
- Thread
- Hot glue
- Flip-flops
- Upholstery tacks
- Scissors
- Sewing machine
- Hot-glue gun
- Fabric pencil
- Pins
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Step 1
Cut the thong off the flip-flops you want to make into sandals.
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Step 2
Cut the duck cloth in half and then fold a piece of the cloth in half to form a rectangle. Place the rectangle on a sturdy table.
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Step 3
Place the outside edge of your foot on the fabric rectangle, parallel to the long sides, with your ankle in the middle.
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Step 4
Use the fabric pen to trace the top of your foot on the cloth, from the tips of your toes, up your ankle and to the edge of the fabric.
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Step 5
Make a dark mark on the cloth where your toes meet your foot and another mark where your ankle meets your leg.
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Step 6
Use a short stitch on your sewing machine to stitch along the line on the fabric, from one dark mark to the other.
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Step 7
Cut the cloth, following the line you drew, but cut about 1/2 inch outside of it.
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Step 8
Cut a series of nicks into the edge of the fabric, just outside the stitching. Avoid cutting through the stitching.
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Step 1
Turn the stitched cloth inside out and match up the unsewn edges at the top.
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Step 2
Use the sewing machine to stitch from your first dark mark to 1/2 inch from the edge of the fabric. Make another stitch from the second dark mark to 1/2 inch from the edge of the fabric.
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Step 3
Turn the cloth inside out again and slide it onto your foot. Match up the two edges along your heel, pin the edges of the cloth together and draw a line where the heel seam will go.
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Step 4
Take the fabric off of your foot and stitch along the heel seam line to about halfway up your ankle. Then, trim the cloth about 1/2 inch outside the heel seam, turn the cloth inside out and stitch the seam the rest of the way.
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Step 5
Roll back the cloth at the toe and at the top to form cuffs.
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Step 6
Stand on top of a flip-flop and pull the fabric you've been sewing down tightly over your toes. Using the pins, pin the cloth all along the edges of the flip-flop.
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Step 7
Remove your foot and cut through the cloth about 1/2 inch below the bottom of the flip-flop. Then, fold the bottom edge of the cloth over 1/2 inch and stitch it.
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Step 8
Get the remaining duck cloth and cut a 5 by 4-inch piece of it, folding it lengthwise.
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Step 9
Stitch the short sides of the cloth together and turn the cloth inside out.
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Step 10
Center the piece of cloth on the bottom of the heel of the modified flip-flop. You should leave 1/2 inch of the open side of the piece of cloth to hang over the edge of the flip-flop, stitching around the top three edges of the piece of cloth. Then, fold the bottom edge over the bottom of the shoe and stitch it.
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Step 11
Remove one or two tacks at a time and put down a line of hot glue along the edge of the flip-flop between the holes. Push the fabric back down firmly onto the glue. Repeat this process around the entire flip-flop.
