I recently made myself a pair of awesome Star Trek shoes by decoupaging fabric onto some canvas sneakers. I followed a tutorial that I can’t for the life of me find again, but I’ll see what I can remember. (if you happen to know where the tutorial is, please link us up in the Comments section below!)

What I thought was clever about the tutorial was that you made a pattern for the shoes using duct tape, instead of just cutting pieces of fabric willy-nilly to fit.

Materials:

• canvas shoes
• 1/2 yd fabric
• duct tape
• fabric Mod Podge
• small soft paintbrush
• scissors and/or X-acto knife

1. Place a piece of duct tape along the side of the canvas shoe and trim the excess off with sharp pointy scissors or an X-acto knife until you have a master pattern piece. Repeat for other side of the shoe.
2. Remove the duct tape from the shoe. Place on fabric and cut around the pattern piece.
3. Brush on fabric Mod Podge to shoe and carefully apply fabric to shoe. Smooth out any wrinkles.
4. Allow to dry 30 minutes to overnight (follow instructions on bottle)
5. Apply a coat of Mod Podge over the fabric to seal. Let dry.

I got the fabric at Jo-Ann’s – they have several patterns of both Star Trek and Star Wars fabrics.

• More Star Trek crafts at GeekCrafts
• More decoupage crafts at GeekCrafts
• More tutorials at GeekCrafts