NARUTO NINJA SANDAL Tutorial

Well, first of all, buy yourself some nice cheap house slippers or something. As long as the shoe has a rubber sole and (easy to cut) fabric overtop. Also a NOTE: I used FLEECE for this, and thus it's a tutorial for fleece shoes, because they don't require snaps/zippers/etc and simply slip onto the foot, 'cause fleece is stretchy.

Also please note that the step where the sandal is sewn onto the sole required a LOT of maneuvering :D;;; So the folding over method was only used for half of the shoe, I had to improvise and do something similarish on the other half.

(For those viewing this tutorial off of the ICC website, you might want to shrink the window to about 550 pixels wide so everything aligns correctly ^^;)



Cut off the fabric, leaving a little edge, so you'll have an 'attaching method'. Cut it down all the way at the toes (obviously no fabric goes over that part).









Cut out four of these (two per shoe). Pin them together over your foot, since you'll probably need to adjust the size to your own foot, mmhmm.










Sew along those two dotted lines. Startin' to look like a sandal, eh? >_>;;;






Turn that sandal-shaped thing inside-out and sew it to the shoe. (Don't forget to like...pin it down and make sure that it fits, before actually sewing it down.) Fold over the fabric a bit, too, so it leaves a nice edge.



Cut a strip long enough to go from one side of your foot to the other, over the sandal (Make it at least twice the thickness of what you want the toestrip to be).







Sew it on facing backwards, a little further from the front.










Fold it forwards (you might need to cut a little bit if you made it too thick), and sew it down underneath.




Cut another strip that's long enough to go around the ankle part, and a little over twice as tall as you want it to end up. Sew it into a tube. Then, sew it downwards to the ankle part, the seam from it becoming a tube on the outside. (Also make SURE to line up that seam with the one already on the shoe, so it looks nice.)




At this point I collected all the scraps I'd made. Fold the fabric up into a pocket and evenly stuff it with the scraps. Note that now the "tube seam" is facing inwards, so it looks nice.







Push the stuffing down just a bit, and sew it shut all the way around.









Flip it up. Hurrah.







Cut something like this. It's the heel part, so the length/height ratio is really up to you.








Sew the bottom edge down to the heel edge of the shoe, with the strip facing down.






Flip it up, and use some more scraps to make it stick out just a bit. (If you overstuff, it feels weird on the heel when you wear it.) Sew that closed too.


Uhhhh, that's it. If you want to add buttons or whatever they have on the shoes (I didn't, since the Akatsuki seem to lack buttons), by all means go ahead.



Here's one of my sandals, AKA "FINISHED PRODUCT, MMHMM":