Bitty Booties

My cousin and his wife had a baby girl back in February, and I made these little shoes for her. I've been enjoying hand embroidery lately, so I wanted to incorporate some of that in these shoes. I found a picture of a mama and baby bird online, so I embroidered them onto the felt. Drawing the mirror image for the matching shoe was a bit tricky, but I got the hang of it.
Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the link to the Heather Bailey's website where you can get the pattern for these shoes.


First, I traced the patterns onto the felt. I also flipped these patterns over so there would be a left and right shoe.

Then I stitched a blanket stitch along the center of the top of the shoes and hand embroidered the bird patterns onto the front of the shoes.

The shoe was really starting to come together after I stitched the back together.

Attaching the bottom of the shoe to the top part was a little tricky, but once I finished pinning it together it was easy to stitch.


...And here is the shoe almost finished, turned inside-out. I know my stitching looks horrible from the inside.


So, here is the finished shoe... oh, wait! It needs something else...

A tiny bow on the back.

For a tutorial, visit Heather Bailey's website here.