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Upcycled Sweater Boots

Step 1The supplies

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To make your boots, you'll need a big bulky sweater with nice large sleeves, some cheap flat shoes, a hot glue gun, and some buttons, as well as a sewing machine and a needle and thread. I machine embroidered my boots as well, but it's not necessary, just awesome :)
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Jan 23, 2010. 8:21 AMBECKBERRY says:
wow did you design these yourself? They are way better than the ones you buy. And when people ask where did you get them? You can say I made them myself!
Jan 13, 2010. 12:30 PMporcupinemamma says:
When you say stretch the sweater to conform to your leg, did you mean the foot? I showed my adult daughter, who is 25 and she was really impressed!
Jan 12, 2010. 9:23 PMM!dn!8ht_Sun says:
 This is such a cool idea!!! I love these kinds of boots and now I can finally get them!! 

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Author:UrbanThreads(Urban Threads)
Art Director and Evil Genius of Urban Threads, an alternative machine and hand embroidery site. Every week I cuss and swear in my studio and macgyver together a new tutorial. You can see all of them ...
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