When a new baby arrives for family or
friends, what better way to say welcome than with a handmade gift?
These baby shoes are a bit fiddly to
make but so cute they’re worth the effort. I found the pattern in this 1991 edition of Handmade a specialty Australian Women’s
Weekly craft book.
The bias binding on my version is handmade from
seersucker. The shoe is lined with iron-on vilene to hold the shape and has a soft innersole of polyester fleece and a self lining. The body of the shoe can be sewn together on the machine but I
found that the binding had to be hand-stitched in place. The bib is
backed with lightweight towelling and fixed with a snap.
For presentation as a gift, I covered a
piece of stiff card with the seersucker to sit the bib and shoes on
then wrapped the gift in cellophane.
The girl-baby version is pictured here
wrapped and ready for presentation.
