Category Archives: Cowboy Boots

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.

The shanks are shaped and laced into place and now it’s time to add the counter cover, which gives the cowboy boot shank its distinctive rounded shape.