Twilight Fairy: Barefoot Sandals & Armband

In lieu of shoes I decided to make barefoot sandals for my TF costume. I looked at some barefoot sandals on Pinterest to see what the general idea was. I knew I wanted mine to wrap up my legs in a crisscross pattern and to come up fairly high. With that and my color scheme in mind I went to my drawers of yarn and grabbed some. I decided that I wanted to mix textures as well as colors. Yarn A. is a kind of silky purple. Yarn B. is a black soft eyelash. Yarn C. is a rich blue boucle. Yarn D. is a super soft gradient purple and pink. Yarn E. is just a standard black. Yarn F. is a deep purple. Yarn G. is a royal blue eyelash.

 

 

 

 A.      B.      C.     D.     E.      F.  G.

 I took 3 strands of yarn C. and 1 of each of the rest, knotted them together and then braided them. They were really long strands and took a while to braid. I made four of  them.

 Then I took two and glued two of the ends together with E6000. There's probably a better way to attach them but that's how I did it. Now this portion was just for wrapping up my legs not for my feet.

 

 For the "sandal" portion I took three strands of yarn E. and braided them together. I held one end at my ankle and wrapped the loose end around one toe and brought it to my ankle. Holding onto both points at my ankle I took the remaining braid down to wrap around another toe and then back to my ankle. This left four strands of the braid lying the length of my foot. Not exactly attractive. I weaved the two outside strands through the two in the middle creating a braid like texture and tied them off at the top. Making use of an old, broken bracelet or necklace I had I glued half of it to the top with E6000.
I then glued the separate pieces together. I had some old clip-on earrings that matched my vision perfectly so I glued one on top of the connection. one of the clip-on earrings had lost the center stone so I filled it in with hot glue and then painted it with two different nail polishes. The effect was very similar to the original stone.

 

Armband

 

 I decided to make a matching armband out of yarns C. D. and E. Using one strand of each I braided them together. One long braid. In order to tie it in a little better with the sandals I made a diamond shape out of clay, baked it and then painted it with the same nail polish. I then glued a thin chain around the edges and a shoe clip to the back with, you guessed it, E6000.

That's all folks!

 

Stay Beautiful <3