Infant “Tom’s” {DIY}

Recently, I had the CRAZY notion to try making some infant “Toms”-like shoes for my baby boy. Apparently, Tom’s makes shoes for toddlers and older children, but not babies. When I couldn’t find any infant shoes on their website, I thought to myself, “Well, that’s dumb. How hard could it possibly be to make some infant Tom’s?” And with that, I was on a mission to find out…

Using Prudent Baby’s awesome online tutorial and pattern as a jumping point, I decided to customize and add the cute little velcro band across the front of the shoes as well as a little patch for the heel. Here you can see my inspiration from the Tom’s shoes kids line.

Cutting everything out was incredibly simple. Making the band was only slightly complicated (I had to just zig-zag stitch the edges because it was too tiny to hem). The part that was utterly frustrating was attaching the top of the shoe to the sole. I believe, however, that this step would have been much easier if I had managed to do it properly. Oops.

I think that a second round at this would prove a tad less complicated on my part. Overall, however, I’m happy with how they turned out and hopefully Baby French won’t want to kick them off immediately…

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