Grandma, why are your feet so big??

"So that I can jump across the ocean to visit you my dear!"

My Mother has big feet. No joke. She's 6ft. tall with big hands, big feet and a larger than life persona. I love her to bits.  She also lives about 10 000 miles away from me, so we don't see each other often. Thank God for Skype!

With Winter approaching in the southern hemisphere, I immediately thought of her when I saw these "big uglies". I have a similar pair in flowery pink and they are so comfortable and non-slip too. Unfortunately the manufacturers didn't think to make the bigger sizes in pretty colours.  Not to worry... it's just another opportunity for me to get creative, so I'm not complaining!

Using my large butterfly cookie cutter, I traced a template onto paper. Yes, cookie cutters can be used for that, I'm sure ;-)  My clever daughter copied me the smaller butterfly to paper. I've found some nice coloured Felt in my fabric stash for the butterflies and hand-stitched two small ones onto the two bigger ones. I'd love to say that it's just the angle of the photo that make the lines looks skew, but unfortunately that's not the case! Nevermind. I'm sure Mum would love it anyway.

Placing the butterflies onto the "big uglies", I realised it needed something more.



Miss C. had some butterfly beads in her collection and volunteered that for Grandma's slippers:)  We decided the "3D" butterflies look pretty cute.  I hand-sewed them into place.

After deciding upon how to position the butterflies, I glued them into place with fabric glue. Isn't fabric glue just the best? I lost count of the amount of times I've used that in creating last minute dress-up costumes for the various times the kids needed it.

When the glue dried, I felt it still needed something else and added a little bit of gold acrylic paint to the mix. What do you think? For sure a definite improvement from the "big uglies" it started out as! Now to make sure it gets mailed in time for Mother's day:)