Introduction: Soft Skid Box

With dance competition time of year right around the corner, it's time to score steady we have everything we need to make costume changes smooth and easy. We nonheritable last class that beg place can run through tights if they are larboard unattended in the dance bag. So this year, tap and clogging shoes will get their very own covers to protect tights and strange dress up pieces in the dance old bag. To attain this goal, we have decided to make soft shoe boxes for each pair of shoes. This has the added benefit of the shoes not rubbing against and scratch each unusual every bit advantageously.

Alternatively of making a categorical bag, my girl wished-for something with more shape to it, so the shoes fit more easily down inside. We have decided to make a soft shoe box so that the shoes fit easily down inside and are easily and rapidly accessible. Aft all, time is e'er critical on competition sidereal day. After some trial and error, I have number up with a angular box-shaped bag that fits each shoe. So to fit a copulate of shoes, you will need to make 2 of these. These fit my daughter's ladies size 6 1/2 and 7 1/2 tap shoes.

To make these bags, I used the following items:

4 pieces of 9"x12" matt-up (or any textile you want to utilise; I made a endorse pair out of leftover velveteen framework scraps)

wander

sewing machine

scissors

chalk to mark fabric

heterosexual pins

Stride 1: Split Out the Pieces

First cut your pieces.

Take two sheets of felt and cut to each one in fractional along the long side so that for each one assemble is nigh 4 1/2 inches wide. If you are lancinating a piece of fabric, the pieces wish be 4 1/2" x 12". These will become the top and bottom of the boxful. You will need 4 strips that are 4 1/2" x 12" to make 2 shoe boxes.

Take another sheet of felt and cut it into 4 strips along the long side so that each despoil will be about 2 1/4 inches wide. You will get 4 strips that measuring stick 2 1/2" x 12". These will become the sides of the boxes.

Forbidden of the shoemaker's last mainsheet of felt, cut the top flap (nonmandatory) and the bottoms of the boxes. For the spinning top flap, you will need to prune 2 pieces that are 4" x 9". For the bottoms of the boxes, you will need to cut 2 pieces that are 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" rectangles.

Now that all the pieces are cut, it's time to pin it jointly. We laid all the pieces bent on determine which side was softest on for each one piece. The soft side wish face the place so information technology will be on the inside of the box.

Whole tone 2: Put down the Sides Together

Since we want our seams on the inwardly of our box and the soft sides of our felt on the inside of our box, we put our rough sides together. The rough sides will cost considered the right sides since they will turn the outside of the box.

First, lay out your 12" strips beside each early. They should interchange in size so that they will make a rectangle when they are sewn in collaboration, 2 1/2" beside 4 1/2" beside 2 1/2" beside the last 4 1/2" strip. The long-acting sides should exist next to each new.

Take one of the 4 1/2" x 12" pieces and fit it up along the long side with ace of the 2 1/4" x 12" pieces. Dress the edges and pin them together.

Victimisation a direct stitch, run up knock down the edge of the felt pieces to sew them together. I am using the guide on my presser foot to keep the hem almost 3/8" from the butt of the fabric.

On the opposite long side of the 2 1/2" strip of fabric happening the strips you have just sewn, queue and pin the long butt on of the second 4 1/2" strip. Pin the edges together past stitch down the edge in.

Match up the pole-handled adjoin of the next-to-last 2 1/2" denude with the all-night edge of either 4 1/2" strip. Pin the edges together and stitch them together. Now you have a larger rectangle made up of 4 strips.

Step 3: Attach the Fundament

Now that your sides are together, it's time to sew the bottom and actually turn it into a boxful.

With the box sides laying flat on your bring surface, line up one of the narrow (2 1/2") sides of the 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" rectangle with the 2 1/2" surgical incision of the strip that is on the outside sharpness of your box sides. Oarlock the short edge of the bottom strip to the edge of the narrow strip on the sides. Sew together them together.

Once that edge is sewn together, turn the merchant ship piece soh that the long side is lined up with the end of the adjoining 4 1/2" peel. Pin the edges in concert and sew them. This can be done happening your work surface or without removing the fabric from the machine.

If you want to do this without removing the fabric from the simple machine, after you have stitched the 2 1/2" edge, ski tow the presser foot. Carefully rotate the pieces so that the edges of the 4 1/2" strips are lined up. Get down the presser foot and continue stitching. When you reach the end of the 4 1/2" leach, lift the presser foot over again and rotate so that you can sew the remaining 2 1/2" side.

Now the bottom should be sewn to all 4 sides of the box and your boxwood should give one 12" side that is silence unsewn.

Carefully pin the finally side seam conjointly. Protrusive at the bottom, sew up the leftover side of the box.

Step 4: Add the Clear

Now your box is seamed together. Plough the box right position out (so the palatal side is facing in) Make a point your shoe fits inside your box. Repeat with the unexpended pieces so that you stimulate a box for both of your shoes.

Once our boxes were finished, we definite we wanted to make over a tipto flap to assistant keep the shoe inside while travel. This is where the 4" x 9" strip comes in. If you decide you want a fluttering to cover the top, turn the package inside out again. Carefully match up one of the 4" sides of the strip with unitary of the 4" sides of the box. Pin the edges together and sew the seam with a straight stitch.

Step 5: Finishing the Boxes

Directly that you have 2 shoe boxes for your twin of place, the boxes can be embellished any way you want. If you privation it to own a button on the fuss, you can add a clitoris. Or you could use velcro to tighten the top flutter to the side of the box.

These bags were made to convulsion our size 6 1/2 and 7 1/2 tap shoes. I ready-made another hardened of bags out of velveteen that I had left from another project and IT did not stretch as so much so the shoes tantrum more tightly in the dish. If you are using fabric that doesn't take as more than stretch thereto, you may want to increase the size of the pieces. For those shoe boxes I'm going to make an outside cup of tea to get around them because I wanted the soft fabric against the shoes and I want to enshroud all the seams. These box bags are easy to customize and earn for any purpose, not just shoes. They would make great slim gift bags too.

For the velveteen shoe boxes, I didn't reach a top flap for them. As an alternative I sewed a simple string bag to slide them down into. I cut a piece of felt that was wide enough to short-circuit the shoe boxes and stitched up each side. To create the channel for the drawstring, I folded over the top edge of the felt approximately an inch and sewed a guileless stitch along the folded abut.

To keep the soft shoe boxes jointly neatly inside the bag, I sewed the top sharpness of one side of each shoe package together. The boxes resist neatly in the larger drawing string bag. Immediately they stay contained and uninjured and cannot eat tights. :)

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