DIY INVASION ~"Making Flip-Flop From Jean Material"

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Greetings Hivers.
I believe we are all doing very fine. I promised to join the ongoing contest in Hivenaija and though I am too late, I still wanna share my work. I have been pretty occupied throughout the week, this is the only time and chance I have left to do this.

I haven't had the opportunity to sit down and be taking shots and steps of every DIY stuff I have been doing, but this particular one I was able to take sometimes ago is what I will be sharing.
Though I have used these images before it was for a completely different purpose and for the purpose of this DIY contest, I am sharing this again.

I had a lot of old Jean at home and I didn't just wanna dispose of them, so I thought of what I could do with it. I decide to make bags and flipflop with it. I had made a bag with it but I preferred to share the flipflop procedure.

I am a Nigerian, residing in Akwa Ibom State. I don't really stick to one thing as I have a lot of things doing, I can do many things ranging from baking, sewing, braiding, cooking, designing, creating, knitting, etc. Below is one of the few things I have made with my hands, no machine or whatsoever.
I will show you the steps and procedures on how I made this

Materials Used

  • An old jean trouser
  • A pair of the shoe pad
  • Scissor
  • Razor
  • Needle
  • Thread
  • Shoe needle
  • Fancy stone
  • Chalk

Working tools

How did I get this done or perhaps how did I start it?
Below are a few shots from the process and a bit of an explanation.

Process and Procedures ~ "HOW TO"

  • First, all i had to do was take out my old Jean trouser and cut out its legs and discard the body. All I needed for making the shoes was the trouser's legs, that alone as enough.

  • After getting my Jean material, I cut it out into a flat layer, I did this with the help of a scissor.

  • Then I measured out the shoe on the jean material using the shoe pad or shoe sample

  • When I got the shape and size of the shoe I was about making, I cut out the jean material to the exact size of the shoe I measured and needed.

  • Then I started sewing. I attached the jean material unto the shoe pad and sown. I used white thread to sew.

  • After I was done with the sewing which took a greater part of my time; due to how tedious the work was. I cut out the remaining rope or thread from my sewing process.

  • Then I washed the shoe and added color; blue. This was to give the jean material a better look
    Being that the jean trouser was an old and worn out one so the color had faded. So I brighten the color again by adding the blue color to it while washing in water.

  • And finally, I attached my fancy Pearl Stone to the shoe to give it a better and amazing look.

I recycled old Jean trousers into a new pair of shoes.

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Thank you for visiting my blog and reading through
@zellypearl



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Okay seriously, this is really awesome. I have some old jeans trousers I'd love to convert like this. Upvoted by the Hive Naija trail

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Wow! excellent very creative your proposal, besides a nice result congratulations!

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Hello, please note that reposting old content with minor changes is frowned upon and can get you blacklisted by @hivewatchers for doing so excessively. We understand you mentioned in the post that this was some time ago and you reposted it for the contest but the importance here is to get rewarded twice for the same content. In the future we'd suggest you use the #showcasesunday tag to make it clear that it's a repost you've changed a few things on so curators can judge for themselves how much they want to curate it and recommend adding a link to the previous post so they don't have to take the time to look how much the original got rewarded or if it was before the EIP when curation was practically non-existent to make an exception. Seeing as your original was curated as well we're going to go ahead and remove the rewards off of this one. If you still want to repost old content for a contest specifically please decline rewards or burn them to @null or something of that nature. Thanks.

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Noted! Didn't know it would be an issue being that I stated already that I have previously used the images. Thanks anyways

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