Polymer clay soles with stiletto heels

The latest video shows how to make soles using patterns with polymer clay. It is actually one of the easiest ways of making soles I have figured out so far, if you don't count the trouble of making the card stock supports. Then again, you can reuse those and make more than one pair of soles before using them for shoe soles as well.


Here are the finished shoes, which are also shown at the end of the video.

Making a pattern for boots

The latest video tutorial shows you how to make a pattern for boots with open toes and heels. The reason for the design is that these are the easiest boots to make. I'll try to shoot the video about making the boots this week.

Making a pattern for doll shoe soles

The next video tutorial shows how to make a pattern for soles. I have explained that before, but I thought a video might still be a good idea.

New patterns

Patterns for Monster High shoes and soles described in recent blog posts are now available on my web site.

New pattern

The pattern for the Monster High boots in the previous post is now available on my web site.

Monster High doll shoes with cardboard soles

These shoes for a Monster High doll are a variation of the Barbie shoes I made earlier. The pattern for these can be found on my web site.

The main difference is that I finished the outer sole structure first. The first picture shows the untreated cardboard structure.

Then I painted the soles, except for the bottom, which does not need paint as it will be covered with leather.

Then I made insoles from two layers of cardboard, attached the straps to them, glued the outer sole and insole pieces together to form a finished shoe, and glued the leather outer soles in place.

Wedge soles for Barbie and Fashion Royalty

Here is another pair of Barbie shoes. These don't require any special materials, just cardboard, ribbon, glue, paint, and scissors. The shoes are modeled here by Hollywood Royalty Lana Turner doll.

You can find the pattern and detailed instructions as a PDF file on my web site.

Shoe patterns on my web site

You can now find the patterns for Baha Cat boots and Schizo's shoes on my web site.

Set of shoes for Tiny Betsy McCall

I had swatches of furniture fabric in several colors. I treated the fabrics with sealer (FolkArt Outdoor Satin Sealer) to prevent fraying and staining. After I had made shoes for larger dolls, there was still enough fabric left to make one pair of shoes in each color for Tiny Betsy.

This model is very simple. It requires minimum amount of glueing. The inner sole is made of the same fabric as the upper part. The outer sole is leather.

As the shoe has open toe, it is easy to glue. All you need to glue are the sides under the inner sole, the strap behind the ankle, and finally the outer sole. You can also glue a small piece of leather as the heel of the shoe.

You can use fairly thick fabrics for this model as the sides are straight, which makes it easy to glue them.


Here is the full set of shoes. Some of the decorations are glued to place, some attached with sewing thread.


If you want to try making this kind of shoes for your doll, here is the pattern. Save the picture on your computer and print it making sure that the scale in the picture matches reality.


If you make shoes using this pattern and put a picture of them on your web site, Flickr, etc., please leave a comment here telling me where to go to see the picture.

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