Carved eggplant embroidered shoes recall childhood

Carved eggplant embroidered shoes recall childhood

Overview

Those who are a little older will definitely not forget the Children’s Day gifts from that year. My mother would start stitching and stitching our thousand-layer-soled shoes early in the morning. The soles were made of cloth and were glued layer by layer and dried. Then they were cut into shoe patterns and stitched together stitch by stitch. The insoles and uppers would also be embroidered with beautiful decorative patterns. On Children's Day, my mother took out the little flower shoes and put them on for us herself. She watched us jumping up happily, and her eyes were filled with motherly love and she smiled. Nowadays, we are all mothers, and few mothers can make embroidered shoes anymore. However, we still miss those embroidered shoes full of love. Tomorrow is Children’s Day, let’s make embroidered shoes for our children and talk about our childhood dreams!

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Steps

  1. Choose two purple eggplants that are about the same shape and size. It is best to have an eggplant that is slightly shorter and not too thick or too thin. Of course, green eggplants are also acceptable, but green eggplants are short and fat. It is estimated that the carvings will look like embroidered pig's trotters shoes, haha!

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  2. First, use your fingernail to gently mark the instep of the shoe on the eggplant, then use a utility knife to mark along the line drawn by the nail, and peel off the purple skin surface of the eggplant on top. Remember not to dig the shoe hole deeply now, because the flesh of eggplant peels and oxidizes quickly. In order to be able to take pictures, the shoe hole is left until the final time when it is almost finished

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  3. Carve the decorative pattern on the toe head. Generally, you can carve some small flowers, tigers, dragons, phoenixes, peonies, etc. In the past, patterns on shoes usually had meanings. Of course, those are too difficult for us, so just carve some simple flowers!

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  4. Do the same with the other shoe

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  5. Put two embroidered shoes with beautiful patterns on them and go through the process of digging shoe holes to prepare for the end of the work. To dig a shoe hole, you can first use a utility knife to make a deeper cut along the upper opening, and then make a sideways cut at a 30-degree angle in the middle. The eggplant flesh will be easily removed. Finally, use a ball digger or a spoon to trim the inside neatly, smooth and nice. If you want to take photos as a souvenir, you have to hurry up because dug eggplants oxidize quickly.

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  6. Finished product pictures

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