Monthly Archives: August 2018

These pieces are going to be counter tips when they grow up. (The hard, inside part of a boot or shoe that goes around your heel is called the counter. The outside, heel leather that you see is called the … Continue reading →

I won’t get to start these boots for months, but they sure are going to be pretty!

If you look closely you can see the perfectly round circle I drew with a compass. I used to be obsessed with perfection; these flower petals would all have obediently touched the circle line and pointed in exactly the same … Continue reading →

Introducing: “Move It On Over” Cowboy boots made by Lisa Sorrell, dog carvings by Kathy Flanagan

Today I’ll build the heels, one layer at a time, on this pair of boots.

It’s the final episode of speed boot making on “It’s a Boot Life” and there are pictures from my museum exhibit in Ohio. It’s a Boot Life

Mother and I are in a hotel in Indianapolis, on our way to the opening of my cowboy boot exhibit at the Canton Museum of Art. I wanted to make it to Dayton, Ohio, but an unplanned detour because of … Continue reading →

Here’s a short video of me stitching soles. If you watch carefully there’s a terrifying millisecond when the boot wiggles. I’d just washed my lunch dishes, my hands were damp, and the boot stuck to me when I repositioned my … Continue reading →

I have this up on my shop wall and it never fails to amuse me.