Make your own personalized pair of Chuck Taylor style sneakers! High tops or low tops, created by you with soft milled leathers and colors of your choosing. You’ll get to design, glue, sew, and assemble your very own unique sneakers! Great for beginners, sewing skills will be taught.
FOR BEGINNERS | Full day workshop (10:00am-5:00pm with a 1 hr lunch break)
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The 1 Day Sneaker Workshop is our most popular workshop for beginners, folks who only have a day to play and anyone who wants to get a feel for our school before diving in the deep end of shoemaking. In just one day you’ll walk out of our workshop wearing a pair of shoes of your own creation and having some new skills under your belt too. You will choose the colors, learn to sew and express yourself through your shoes. Come solo or with friends and family!
Skill Level: Beginners are very welcome!
Workshop Breakdown
You will create a pair of Chuck Taylor style sneakers, in a high top or low top variation. The soles of your shoes are a choice between a speckled brown (made from recycled balloons, rice husks and rubber) or speckled white soles (made from recycled tennis balls and rubber). We have created an easy to use pattern for you to work with as you create your shoes from soft milled leathers using colors of your choosing.
Next you will have an easy sewing lesson and a chance to practice on some scrap leather before embarking on sewing your shoes together.
Then you will begin the final steps of attaching your own flair hammering in colored grommets and finally choosing your colorful laces, tying it all together. The day is all about having fun and working with our hands, we will walk you through the construction of your sneakers every step of the way.
Prep Needed/Special Notes
Sizes we have available are US sizes – Womens 5 up to Mens 14.