Joy Slippers

Step 2 Pattern Making and Tracing

Because everybody's feet are different you are going to have to decide who to make these Joy Slippers for.
This Instructable will only go through the steps of creating the left slipper. The right slipper is exactly the same, except you will have to turn the stencils upside down.

Pick a foot, and trace it onto a piece of thin cardboard or thick paper. Before cutting out the tracing draw three petal like shapes on the heel that stick out from your foot. We will call these tabs; they will be where we attach the slippers to the electronics later on.
Cut out the tracing with the tabs. Put your foot back on the tracing and find the areas where 1) your heel presses and 2) the balm of your toes press. In these areas you will want to draw a strips of 1.5cm wide and at the toes: 6cm long and at the heel: 4cm long. Make sure these strips do not come within at least 1cm of the edge. Cut out the insides of these strips and make markings every 1cm along the lengths. In the next step these strips will make sense.

Now you will want to trace these stencils on to the neoprene twice for one foot. Trance one of the tabs on one tracing and the other two along with the other tracing.