The “Clog Blog”
Hey Y’all! I’m so excited to share what I’ve been working on the past couple of days. This Summer I have been trying to be intentional about immersing myself in the life around me, rediscovering hobbies that make me feel good and exploring my creative side. I stumbled upon some viral clogs that people were putting patches on from Five Below and it inspired me to customize some clogs. However, I didn’t want them to look like everyone else’s, so I searched on TikTok & went to Hobby Lobby and looked around in hopes of inspiration. I ended up seeing these inclusions on the wall at the store and they were on sale for 50% off, so I had to get them! I’ve always wanted to try meticulous craft projects like bedazzling my grad cap or diamond painting, so this was right up my alley. The process for the “Candy Rain” Clogs was easy with the E-6000 glue and actually was kind of therapeutic. It was nice to relax, listen to music or hang out with my sister and place the inclusions one-by-one. As for the crochet clogs, I wanted something similar to patches, but I wanted it crochet. I saw some super cute granny square clogs that I loved and they also inspired me to use crochet circle patches and turn them smiley faces. That ended up not looking how I imagined and I ended up pivoting into filling the whole shoe in with yarn and that’s how we ended up where we are.
I decided to do something a little different this time and record mini tutorials with voice-overs, so you guys could see the process.
The supplies you will need are as follows:
Tweezers
To place the inclusions and mold the yarn. Try to fit the inclusions in as tight as you can without shifting it, so it’s less see-through gaps.
E-600 Fabric Glue
To lay inclusions and yarn. Be mindful the packaging on this product says “possible cancer agent”, so an alternative may be better suited for you. If you do use it, I recommend doing it outside or with a window open or maybe a mask. Always read labels.
Clogs
I got mine from $5 below because I didn’t want to get expensive ones and mess them up, but you can get them from wherever.
Inclusions
I am so curious about what their actual purpose is like what do people use them in? Anyways, I got these from Hobby Lobby on sale for 5.49 a pack.
Brush
Paintbrush, Makeup Brush etc it doesn’t matter. You just need to have a brush you can use to spread the glue out as evenly as possible. I used an old makeup brush, then my sister’s old nail brush once that once crusted up with glue and became immobile.
Yarn (Mine is from Hobby Lobby because they always have a sale on yarn, I believe it was around $4 a pack. We love a good bargain over here. This is my preferable size yarn, but you can get whatever size you want, larger yarn will probably take less time and be more fluffy.
Lastly, you’ll need patience. The process is tedious and time-consuming, but it is a lot of fun as long as you are patient with yourself.
The “Candy Rain” Clogs took me around 6-8 hours, it went by fast though, so I’m honestly not sure.
As for the Crochet Clogs, my sister made the circles because she’s more advanced at crochet than me and they took her like an hour max to make all of them. I used the Inclusions to make smiley faces and that took probably 10-15 minutes. Laying the yarn felt like it took FOREVER because that other fabric glue I used was like the texture of glue and not keeping the yarn in place. I should’ve stuck with the E-6000, but the possible cancer agent warning kinda freaked me out lol. It only took about five hours to do both shoes though.
Overall, I would do this again. I want to make some more right now and I have some new ideas, so this might be a recurring thing. Thanks for reading/watching, I hope yu enjoy the tutorials and let me know if it was helpful and if you enjoyed this blog!
TH
(Please excuse the smacking, omg, who raised me?? lol)
