Mend
Posted by: Peanut in MyBlog on Aug 31, 2014
Maisie loves to go outside. She also loves her shoes. She will get them from their spot and bring them over to me and then sit on the floor and wiggle out of excitement while I put them on her feet. Then she'll bring me my shoes and then we find hats and sweaters and head out the door, often with Abby, especially if Maisie got down the leash. The side effects of all this are a nice collection of spruce cones, feathers and rocks on the kitchen table and some holes in Maisie's shoes. They're just little soft soled shoes, moccasins really, but they are so cute and comfortable and they don't fall off. I was really hoping they'd fit until the end of September when we'll need to switch to warmer boots anyway so when we saw the holes starting we realized something had to be done. I traced around her shoes to make new soles from some smoked moose hide leftover from the slippers I made for Rob a few years ago. It took me a few days to get the sewing done since I could only do it while Maisie wasn't around (if she saw the shoes she was going to want to wear them) and it was slow going at times. That little white disk thing in the fourth picture was a lifesaver. It's for gripping a needle and pulling it through a thick piece of fabric and it really, really helped. Depending on where I was sitting I used either my cutting mat or a pot holder to protect the table as I used it to push the needle as far through as I could from the one side and then I'd grab it with the gripper thing and pull it the rest of the way. Some sort of thimble probably would have been handy too. I finished the sewing just as Maisie was waking up yesterday morning. She watched me put in the last couple of stitches and then ran around the house holding her shoes. Final approval was given in the form of a early morning walk with Abby. Yeah, she's still in her pajamas.