Diy Agejo rose shoes

Hello darlings! Today, I'm giving you a tutorial on how I made these super cute and super hot heels from some shoes I got from Kmart on clearance. I first made these to wear to the TWICE concert back in November, but I decided to remake them and do a tutorial too!

When I first made these, I only had cream coloured heels from about a year ago, so sadly, it didn't quite match. It was truly just my luck when I found these black shoes in the same model!

I was really inspired by these Agejo-style shoes I found on Pinterest; they're so fun and are fairly versatile. I think they could work for Hime gyaru too if you used white and pink lace. I guess rose motifs unite the two substyles, which is great, because I really love them.

I really wish I had the same type of fake rose as they do, but I didn't, and couldn't find any at a reasonable price. But as I'm writing this, I am remembering Daiso has a lot of fake flowers that are cute...and also I know a dollar store with quite a few too - how silly am I for forgetting. I'll have to get some and make some cute hair accessories. So instead, I made ribbon roses. I do apologise for my kind of poor explanation of how to make the ribbon roses, but if you need more guidance, there are plenty more in-depth tutorials on YouTube.

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જ⁀➴ MATERIALS

• A pair of heels
• Hot glue/a strong adhesive 
• A couple of different types of lace (I used eyelet lace of about 1.5cm, then a thinner textured lace of 1cm)
• 1.5m of 5cm wide ribbon
• Rhinestones
• Thread
• Needle
• Thimble

જ⁀➴ STEPS 

Part 1 - The ribbon roses 

1. Cut four pieces of ribbon, 2 35cm long and 2 30cm long

2. Fold one corner over, as shown in the diagram

3. Sew down that edge either by hand or with a sewing machine set to straight stitch and its longest stitch length (probably 4-5mm) 

4. Fold the ribbon together and continue sewing, it will look rumpled and wrong, but it should be mismatched. There is now the sewn edge and the folded edge

5. Continue sewing along until the end, cut off the thread, but leave about 10cm extra and do not knot. By now, the ribbon has probably folded over itself - this is a good sign though!

6. Pull on one thread to gather up the fabric until it’s about half the length of the original ribbon; it should look a bit spiralish at this point. 

7. Begin folding the length of ribbon into a rose, sewing through the middle as you go, as shown in the diagram below, the light pink representing the edge of the ribbon and dark pink representing the stitches. 

Make sure that you untwist the ribbon (this does not mean remove the gathers - don't do that!!), just don't roll it up as is. Additionally, the sewn edge should wrap around itself, and the folded edge should form petals.

A tip for this part: make sure you don’t start accidentally making a cone when you fold by lowering the placement of each layer(?), and make sure everything is at the same level. In fact, at the start, it’s best to make the middle a little bit more sunken than the rest of the flower, like a real rose.

8. Once you have folded the rose and sewn the base together, just sew across the bottom a few times to secure it and you’re done!!!

9. Repeat this three more times to make two big roses and two slightly smaller roses

Part 2 - decorating the shoes

10. Measure out lace to go over the toe strap and ankle strap. For me, I put a piece of my 1.5cm wide eyelet lace across the ankle strap and one on each edge of the toe strap since it was about 4cm wide. This left a perfectly sized gap in the middle to place my textured lace.

Tip: add an extra .5cm to each end of the lace, this is so we can fold it underneath to hide the messy edge and lengthen the life of our gorgeous shoes!

11. Glue down the lace onto the straps. I glued down my eyelet lace first, then my textured lace. This is so the eyelet lace doesn’t cover up the texture

Tip: when doing the ankle strap, avoid getting glue in the little holes where the buckle goes through, just use teeny-tiny little dots in between the holes because we will secure it with stitches later anyway.

12. At the toe strap, I added some hot glue along the bottom edges and then painted over with black nail polish just for some extra security, but you can skip this step, or just do it much neater than I did

13. Get out your thimble, a needle and some thread. A between needle is ideal, but any strong needle is fine. However, you will not be able to do this without a thimble unless you’re prepared to lose all nerve endings in your fingers.

14. Make a knot at the end of your thread, then put your needle through the toe strap like this, going through the same hole 3-4 times to secure the thread

15. Begin securing the lace to the shoe with a blanket stitch. When sewing, you don’t have to go through the whole thickness of the leather, and it’s better if you just skim underneath it because it’s much easier and less likely to damage your needle. I’d also recommend piercing your needle through the holes already there from the factory assembly of the shoe.

16. Repeat this for both edges of the shoe, then also sew the whole way around the ankle strap

17. Hot glue your ribbon roses to your heels, then add your rhinestones. In the video I did this step before sewing, but the roses mostly got in the way and I kept flinging rhinestones off, so I’d save it for last.

18. Go be hot and gorgeous in your new shoes!!

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