The revised copy of the revised copy (not a typo) of How to Make Simple Ecological Shoes for Women with your own two hands! is complete and the pdf has been emailed to those who ordered it from my Etsy shop. If I overlooked anyone please let me know. If you would like a copy, please see the link to my etsy store.
While working on this book, another project materialized that slowed me down but was worth it: a Waldorf handwork teacher asked me for directions and patterns for creating shoes that seventh-grade students (twenty of them) could make. For those of you who have read my previous blog posts or books, you might be familiar with the terms I created - nomocs, lomocs and fomocs - for different shoemaking techniques. I am not using these terms any more, it was confusing, but the concept of stitching uppers to a sole that curves up around the edge of the foot, like moccasins, remains useful.
Someone posted a photo of a shoe that looked like a moccasin sole with a derby shoe upper on a facebook page. That informed me that the best shoe for her students to make is a - moccashoe!
What I love about the moccashoe is that even when you're "finished" making it - it's not necessarily finished. It's relatively simple to increase or decrease the size of the shoe if changes need to be made, although you do need to un-stitch the upper from the sole. Un-stitching is "par for the course" for me, which (I checked) means "what is normal or expected in any given circumstance" - I tell students "I take out more stitches than I put in" and I think it's the truth!
So, I will soon complete writing a smaller book, "How to Make Moccashoes" that I will send without charge to anyone who has purchased or will purchase "How to Make Simple Ecological Shoes" before March 31.
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