What you will need:

2 yards of 1 ½” cotton cord
1 yard of ¾” cotton cord.
½ yard of ½ “ cotton cord 2 skate knee pads

2 yards of “leather look” vinyl or leather in brown or black

1/4 yard of yellow or beige vinyl

Hot glue gun

patience

1. Purchase a pair of skate knee pads. Try Garage Sales or Thrift Stores. They can be cruddy looking but the part covering the knee should not be cracked.

2. Cut the excess material out of the knee pads. Cut above and below the plastic knee guard

3. Measure from the top of the knee to the instep.

4. Measure around the calf or largest part of the leg. Divide by two and add 1 ¼”. You can make this measurement bigger if you want the pad to cover more of the leg.

5. Create your quiddich pad leg pattern by measuring the length of the leg to bottom of knee and the width around your calf. Add an extra inch. (Sorry, this is not an exact science)

6. You now have a rectangle. Use pattern piece 1 to create the instep. Also, you might want to try it on as your instep may not be as high as my son’s.

Pattern Piece 1

7. Cut out four of the above pattern out of vinyl or leather (whatever your machine will
sew).

8. Cut out a square of vinyl the same width as your leg pads. Using hot glue, glue the
square to the plastic knee guard you cut out in #2 above.

9. Put two of the leg pads together. Sew approximately 5/8” from the edge on the sides.
Next, sew four vertical lines as in the above pattern piece. They must be at least 1 1/2” wide each to accommodate the 1 ½” cotton cord that you will be using as stuffing.

10. Cut your 1 ½” cotton cord a little longer than the pad you are going to stuff. You will
need to cut 4 of these.

11. Stuff the cotton cord into the 1 ½” wide pouches you have made in you leg pad.

12. Once you have the cotton cord in you leg pad and you are satisfied with the look, you
need to sew ¼” on the instep end to seal of the pad. You can finish off with yellowish
or beige vinyl cut in 1/2” strips and apply using hot glue.

13. Sew the knee guard piece you created in #8 above to your leg pad. You want to finish off you edges of the knee guard, either zig zag or hot glue.

14. Try on the leg pad and measure the distance between the ends of pad at the top of the knee, below the knee and at the ankle. Add an inch to each of those measurements and that will be the length of the straps.

15 Cut out 2 straps 1” wide of each of measurements you determined in #14 above. Apply Velcro to each set of 3 straps. Sew the straps to the pads

16 Make another pad the same way for the other leg and you are finished with your leg pads!!!!

Here’s a picture of our finished leg pads:

17. Using the following as a guide, create your Quiddich arm pad pattern. You will need to measure from the elbow to the wrist for the parallel pad part and from the wrist to the middle of the hand.

18. You will cut four of the arm pads and them together similar to the directions for the leg pad. The only difference is taking the measurement from your wrist to the fingers, the lines of stuffing are perpendicular to the rest of the arm pad.

19. Remember to sew 5/8” from the edge of the arm part and allow ¾” each for your pad pouches. I found it easier to stuff the pouches first then sew across at the wrist. Create your perpendicular pouches covering the hand about ½” each.

20. Stuff the pouches in the arm pad. Finish off by sewing the end by the fingers and by the elbow.

21. Similar to how you created straps for the leg pads, measure the space between the end of pad at the wrist and just below the elbow. Cut your straps, apply Velcro and you are ready!!

Here’s a picture of our arm pads:

Here’s what the pads looked like on my son: