Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

I’m making progress on the blue boots! The cords hanging over the boots are the inseaming threads. I prepared those yesterday so I can use them for sewing the welt on today.

I have them on the last and they’re starting to look like boots!

It’s the boot shop version of a quilting bee. All of my students were trimming insoles at the same time.

This is my daughter Paige’s personal collection of lasting pliers. I think she’s a little bit spoiled.

I have the vamps and counters sewn onto the boot tops and I’ll be sewing the side seams this afternoon. Soon, instead of random leather pieces, they’ll look like boots!

These are the boot tops for the boots I’ll be making alongside my current student.

Sometime this afternoon between fixing the crimp break, attempting (with no luck at all) to fix the air conditioner that chose NOW to die, working on my YouTube video for Monday, and receiving a huge shipment of leather from England, I managed to cut out some leaves and flowers for my next pair of boots.

My order from Baker Leather in England just arrived and Morgan is preparing to remove all the packaging with her fearsome knife.