Rey boots tutorial

[Yumi ()]

Hi girls,
Judges ask me to do a tutorial of how I made my boots. My costume has been accepted and I'm glad to help.

1st step :

- buy brown boots



- I bought brown leather and brown woolen
- I bought one pair of brown lace for the back of the boots
- I needed to have my fabric little more darker so I used brown acrylic



2nd step :

- I colored my fabric and the leather with a little bit of white wax to make this "old" aspect.

3rd step :

- I cut the differents pieces of fabric and leather as you can see on the second photo.
- I sew all together on the boots



It tooks me one day to sew everything and especially the leather parts which are very hard to sew. I finally put the lace ans that's the result !





I know it's not the best result we can get, I'm expecting to improve them very soon, hope this tutorial will help someone ...

[lalalorhen (Loren)]

This is great. This is exactly what I was planning to do with mine.

Great job and congrats on your acceptance

[stardancer1914 (Star Dancer)]

Thanks so much for doing this for all the Rey's out there that can't afford to buy the boots from the UK.
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[NebulaGirl (Linda)]

The fabric looks a bit unusual, how necessary is it to get a fabric that looks like it matches the po-zu boots, and if it is necessary, are there any online stores that might sell this kind of fabric if Joann doesn't have it?

Thanks so much for the tutorial, I finally convinced myself to drop the money on the po-zu shoes, but now they're sold out again and I don't have time to wait before my next con.

[stardancer1914 (Star Dancer)]

[NebulaGirl (Linda)]

Thanks, I'll see what I can find. Any idea about how much fabric I might need?

[stardancer1914 (Star Dancer)]

I bought a little over 2 yards. After washing it shrank a bit (which helped the texture) but I am pretty sure there will be enough.
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Star Dancer - Stardancer1914 aka Dianne Althouse

• United Citizens of the Galactic Republic DCO 2016 to present
  
• MEB Membership Officer & Tosche Temple Mistress Oct 2018 to present
  
• UCGR - DXO 2015
  
• Legion Costume Judge - Jedi & Rebel Supporters 2015 to 2017
  
• Mos Eisley Base - Grand Canyon State
  

[NebulaGirl (Linda)]

So I was originally planning on using a gray cotton weave fabric that I have and dyeing it brown, but upon looking closely at the po-zu shoes, I almost think that a suede or felt fabric would work well too, since the fabric used looks more fuzzy than having a clear weave to it, not sure if that makes sense, but I can't think of a good way to describe it. I happen to have some brown suede fabric, what do you think of using that?

Please let me know if there is a better place for me to post these questions, I personally think that it is helpful to post here for others doing the same, but I am also new to the forums and will gladly post elsewhere if appropriate .

[RebelAerialist ()]

How do I upload a pic here?

[stardancer1914 (Star Dancer)]

[stardancer1914 (Star Dancer)]

[RebelAerialist ()]

Gotcha, thank you!