Remember my fabulous thrifted two-steppin’ cowboy boots from a Wild West Thrifty Thursday?
Unfortunately the faux leather started to peel away from those second hand beauties so they were put out to pasture until I could come up with a fix to get them back in rotation.
Fortunately my refashionista brain came up with a quick & painless way to transform those worn out kickers into stylin’ buttoned booties!
Here’s what I did:
I snagged the boots and a selection of hoarded fabric belts
*This was one of those times where a project totally changed mid-refashion. My original idea was to wrap & attach the belts around the boots to cover the worn areas but what worked so well in my head simply didn’t in reality so I put on my thinking cap and began again.
I chopped the boots to my desired height getting rid of most of the wear and tear, hooray!
Grabbed a wide fabric belt, cut it to size and hand stitched the pieces around the chopped tops to bind and cover the raw edges.
Snagged my jar of brown buttons
(why yes, my button stash is sorted & stored by colour in baby food jars)
and stitched a few over the remaining shabby areas + a few more for extra fanciness!
Yeehaw from the front and back!
Completely awesome from the sides!
Are you digging my fast and fancy faux leather cowboy boot fix as much as I am?
Get the how-to behind what I did with the chopped boot tops right here:
+ Check out the 3 groovy DIYs I created from a pair of faux suede boots:
a pair of awesome ankle boots a beauteous beatnik bag a fabtastically fringed sweatshirt
= why I love being a Refashionista!
Want to transform your entire wardrobe for pennies? Grab all of my groovy CoaR tutorial collections right here:
Well done to a great refashion/recycle job!!!!!
Thanks very much Therese – take a peek at all of my shoe re-dos here: https://awesomesauceasshattery.com/tutorial-index-by-photo/tutorials-for-accessorizing/
This is an awesome save! Was it hard to sew? Are they vinyl?
The faux leather was a bit tough to push the needle through in some spots and totally easy in others but definitely worth the results. (The boots are not vinyl/PVC but made of PU leather)
Check out my other faux leather shoe fix here: https://awesomesauceasshattery.com/2014/10/29/a-quick-faux-leather-fix/
Definitely digging it! I liked them as cowboy boots, but I actually think I like them better now!
(also coveting your yellow tights)
I’m a bigger fan of them now as well!
Those tights were an awesome find in a bag of “hey do you want these ugly old clothes” 😀