Things You'll Need:
- Stiff leather or other similar material
- Stiff paper (grocery bag or pattern paper)
- Sharp Scissors
- Awn or rotary punch
- Long, sharp, thick needles
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Step 1
Draw an outline of your foot on a piece of paper. Make sure to allow a little over 1 inch all the way around and about 1 ¼ inch at the toe for the seam.
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Step 2
Measure the distance between the back of your big toenail to just above your instep to get a good idea of the length of your vamp (top of the moccasin). Measure from one side of the ball of your foot across your instep to the other side, and add about ¼ inch to the foot line for your vamp measurement.
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Step 3
Cut the vamp pattern in the shape of your sole pattern, less the heel area. Use the vamp measurements to create the pattern, remembering to add ¼ inch across the instep.
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Step 4
For the back of the moccasin pattern, cut piece of material that is 4 inches wide and long enough to wrap around the heel of your foot, overlapping about ½ inch on each side.
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Step 5
Use an awl or a very fine rotary hole punch to make holes ¼ inch from the edge of the soles, front pieces, vamps and back pieces of your moccasin material.
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Step 6
Using a saddle stitch, work outward from the center of each vamp, stitching one side and then the other.
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Step 7
Join the sole to the back of the moccasin by sewing each side from the center of the heel outward.
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Step 8
Add a thong by cutting a long strip from the same material that you are using for your moccasin and threading the strip through slits in the back piece of the moccasin. Make sure the piece is long enough to tie into a bow.















