Monthly Archives: May 2023

I got one of these boots on the last and paused to show it to Flora so she could admire how precisely the design details were in the correct place. She looked at it, and without missing a beat said, … Continue reading →

I think I’ve posted this pair once already, at this very same stage, but I wasn’t happy with the way they sat on the last the first time. I left them sitting for a while to make sure and they … Continue reading →

I spent almost all day on the computer and didn’t get back to my workbench until 4pm. At that point it’s easy to give up but I persevered, and cut and skived all the sunflowers.

Finally jumping back onto this sweet little pair of shoes

This is what I’ve been working on. The customer needed a zipper and I decided to give my new shoe making patterning skills a workout. The first attempt I told myself that it was out of my skill set, I … Continue reading →