I’d forgotten about this pair of boots until I was going through some old photos the other day and found them. There’s a disagreement among boot makers — well, actually there are several, but one is whether you should begin with the innermost row or the outermost row when stitching a top pattern. I’m Team Innermost Row because I like precisely defining the negative space inside a design. This pair of boots circumvents the rules; I stitched the outermost row here and then just stitched inside until the whole thing was full of lines of stitching.
If you’ll look closely you’ll see there’s another rule broken also. The front panels are black and the back panels are cognac.