#boot covers

[smellofsnoww]

Also someone just catch Gogolev or something and TAPE THOSE LACES he stressed me so much watching it, how do you risk your laces like that

[deerbydesign]

Boots!!! So far!!! Super excited to start painting them!!! And for the buttons to finally get in!!

[spaceselkie]

Ludmilla Cosplay - Shoes

My first finished piece for my Ludmilla cosplay are her shoes. For an overview of my construction process, click the read more!

This was my first time making boot covers/shoe covers; however, my partner has made boot covers before so they were super helpful for parts where I wasn't sure what was what. I got these done fairly quickly, as I only started them yesterday evening.

For this project, I used a pair of ugly chunky heels I got on clearance from a local store, 5 mm EVA foam, a half yard of black 4-way stretch pleather, a half yard of sparkly pink 4-way stretch "performance" fabric (not quite the right color for her shoes but as close as I could find in a stretch fabric at our local store) and a matching pink cricut permanent vinyl for the hearts... as well as copious amounts of contact cement. I also hot glued a nonstick material to the bottom of the shoe at the end for safety (I do NOT want to slip in heels).

My first step was to make the pattern for these guys, for both the fabric as well as the solid structure of the shoe. As you can see in the original shoe, they are made of a stretch material, so I had to create the shell myself from EVA foam. I used plastic wrap and painter's tape to get my pattern - use masking tape if you ever make boot covers. Painters tape works in a pinch but was hard to see my pattern drawn on. It's important to draw on lines for you to cut along as you cut your pattern out, and so you know what goes where. I also made my pointy toe in the pattern using some of the green foam laying nearby (partner is making a tail for a Leon cosplay - yes, that Leon, from RF4). You could use something else but this was on hand for me.

I took my cut out pattern pieces of tape and traced them to make my real pattern on a thin paper. Originally I was going to incorporate seam allowances but I ended up not doing this for the final pattern and eyeballed my allowance instead. For boot covers this is fairly forgiving because you will have to adjust the final cover for fit anyway - you just have to make sure it's bigger rather than smaller than what you need (but the stretch fabric here helps with that).

I cut my foam pattern out (including a toe gusset for the tip) and glued up the center front seam of the shoe. The foam looks like weird mustaches because I mirrored the pieces to reduce how much gluing I had to do. I then did some heat shaping of the foam with my heat gun to get it more shoe shaped and round those toe tips, then finally glued the toe tips to the base (after shaping those too). I clipped excess foam off of the toe tip pieces so they'd fit with the shoe, and then glued the foam over the shoe.

They look a little messy with the glue, but that's okay - it'll be covered by our boot cover. This is just structural, and it fits over my foot, so we're good to move on to the cover itself.

These are the pattern pieces cut - again, at the back seam I mirrored pieces for less sewing. I did not end up using the extra toe tip piece, and I had to adjust the heel pattern a lot because it was too big.

All of these pieces were sewn with a zig zag stitch to help with stretch. First, I took the black piece and sewed the pink upper heel piece that sits on the shoe together. I then sewed up the center seam at the front of the shoe. Next I hemmed the heel piece, sewed it into a tube (the bottom is open for gripping while walking - safety first), and centered it on the sole piece before sewing a little under half of it to the sole piece. Then I sewed the sole/heel piece to the shoe fabric piece. Throughout all of this I pinned A LOT. This and all the gluing was the most lengthy part of the process. After sewing, I put the boot cover onto the shoe inside out, pinned AGAIN where I needed to take things in, and then sewed along where I'd pinned to get a better fit. Eventually I ended up with this:

These are the shoes with the adjusted cover and glued to the foam at the top. You can see clearly where I glued it - again, with contact cement. I'm not super worried about the appearance of this because it will be against my body which means it won't be seen, but I may cover it up with a fabric strip or something for finishing if I'm worried about it.

Only one step left!

By hand, I made a pattern for a heart (using mirroring on a fold to get it even), made sure it looked about the right size relative to the shoe, and then traced it on the back of my cricut permanent vinyl, 4 times. Then, very carefully I cut them out by hand, and put them onto the shoes in the right place. I ended up putting them more horizontal than hers because of how I wanted them to mirror each other based on how the shoes ended up being shaped (the front pieces curve slightly differently than hers because of how I had to shape it to be able to actually put the things on). Also, I chose permanent vinyl because I wanted this to stick and I didn't want to fiddle with an iron on. The permanent vinyl should do just fine on the pleather. I could have cut these on my cricut machine but it was faster to just do it by hand than fiddle with their software.

Very last step was to hot glue gripper fabric onto the sole so I don't slip, and the shoes are done!

[lady-creations-and-co]

A small reel to show the transformation for my Legolas boots!

I used a pair of old riding boots that I had laying around that were slowly falling apart so I decided to give them a new life with Legolas

What do you think?

Everything is entirely self made!

I'll post more wips of the boots soon!

[prosperdecay]

Guess what I’m doing

[cosplaytutorial]

Hi! I'm new to making my own cosplay, this is my first time doing it all myself. Unfortunately, I've hit a few road blocks as I'm preparing to make it. I'm trying to make Glimmer from the new She-Ra, and her boots are peculiar and I'm not sure how to go about making them at all. Do you have any suggestions for a process I could use for her boots?

Hello there!

There are two major ways to go about making cosplay boots: one is to paint an existing pair of boots, and the other is to make bootcovers. For this project, I would recommend bootcovers, since you can get the correct seaming.

There are a large number of bootcover tutorials on the website, but I’ll briefly go over the method that I would recommend for this.

For something with complicated seaming like this, I would recommend doing the leg wrap method of patterning. You will cover your leg and your base shoe in a layer of saran wrap and then a layer of duct tape (or just a few layers of Glad Press N Seal wrap, if you don’t need it to be super sturdy). Once your leg is wrapped, draw your seamlines on the duct tape with a permanent marker. I would recommend doing the purple seamlines and ignoring the blue swirl for now, unless you feel confident enough to do the more complicated seaming required. You will end up with a toe piece, the top band, a front piece, and a back piece, likely with a seam up the back so it can fit around your ankle. Label these and cut them apart.

You will then add seam allowance to the pieces and cut them out of your fabric – light blue for the toe (which may require a seam or a dart up it to get the curve), light purple for the band and for the back, and dark purple for the front. I would recommend a stretch fabric that doesn’t fray, like a matte miliskin.

If you are attaching the shoes inside permanently, you can simply keep some of the length at the bottom around the sole. If you want to be able to slip out your shoes, be sure that your pattern includes the sole, as well.

Sew these pieces together, and attach your sole as needed. If you are glueing the covers to your shoes, slash the bottom like you are clipping curves while sewing and glue, and then glue a separate sole piece on top. If not, you can add non-slip fabric (often sold in the baby section of the fabric store – this is the stuff for making sure footie pajamas don’t slip) to the bottom, add a dense foam or leather sole piece (glued on), or you can add puffy paint or hot glue dots and swirls for grip.

For the blue swirl up the leg, if you are confident in piecing the bootcovers together, you already included them in the pattern and they are done. If not, you will create a separate pattern for them and attach them on top. Personally, I would glue them, but you can also applique them (sew them on top) once the bootcovers are mostly assembled but the sole is not finished yet. Do the same for the crescent moons.

And congrats! You will have some nice bootcovers for your costume! It may take a bit of practice, so if this is your first time making something like this, I would recommend getting extra fabric so you can make a mockup.

I hope that helps! Good luck :]

—Fabrickind / Q&A Staff / Twitter

[m16masquerade-cosplay]

✂️Boot Cover Tutorial ✂️

Step 1:

Pick the boots you are designing a cover for.

Trace them onto a sheet of paper to make the pattern.

**Be sure to give 1-2in of fabric allowance**

Step 2:

Cut out your fabric using your pattern.

Step 3:

Start sewing your pieces together.

I sewed the curve and toe first to ensure it fit properly.

Next, I hemmed the bottom and added the cuff.

Step 4:

Next, the elastic was added to the bottom for sliding and securing onto the boot.

Step 5:

Lastly, add Velcro to secure and seal your boot! After this, you can trim or redo hem lines where necessary.

Hope this was helpful! This was my first time making a boot cover, so it's very simple.

[cosplaychoco]

This is my avatar Korra Cosplay and you gotta deal with it