4 members took part in this Show and Tell – the first being Sarah – a YE member aged 14.
Sarah decided a few years ago that she would like to be a shoe designer and for the last 3 years has continued to work on a variety of ‘shoe projects’ with her Granddad’s help.
From cutting a tree log, chiselling it to shape, working with leather to shape and engrave it, she completed her first pair of Clogs when she was 11 and these were on show at our Open Day in 2010 as part of our Local Heritage display.
She has since gone on to complete a pair of sandals with painted engraved patterns on the leather upper; a pair of suede moccasins with gathered fronts and goldwork embroidery decoration, and a pair of ‘Aladdin’ slippers in gold fabric all shown below.
She is currently working on another pair of suede moccasins which includes a collection of hand embroidered Butterflies attached to the surface and it has so far taken her 60 hours. She is entering them for the Young Embroiderers’ De Denne competition this year and they have to be sent off in the next 3 weeks – so no photographs of these I’m afraid – we will just have to see if she achieves another win this year.
She was wearing a beautiful pair of black leather lace-up ankle boots with butterfly decoration – one of which is shown in the photograph below –
She wants to continue with her ambition and to achieve this she will be taking a Textiles GCSE and has already contacted several colleges who run Shoe Design Courses. We wish her well.
Numbers 2.3. and 4 will follow later
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