Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

This was the first pair of cowboy boots I ever had, made by my old mentor Jay Griffith. I inlaid and stitched the boot tops. I redid the design for Rebecca’s boots because I wanted it to be her first pair of cowboy boots also.

My student this week is Rebecca. She’s training to be a shoemaker in Germany and is here for an inlay/overlay class. Since she’s already a shoemaker her project is a set of boot tops which she’ll be able to take home and make into boots. The paper piece is her boot top pattern, the blue leather will be her boot tops, and the smaller pieces are for the inlay and overlay design.

My current student Rebecca is holding up the forest green alligator skin I got in the mail today. This alligator was huge–I sure wouldn’t have wanted to swim where ever he was!

This is a pillow I made of leather. The fringe is hand-cut, the leather is all kangaroo, and it depicts the scene from my window on my recent trip to Montana.

I finished my Montana pillow and now I have to send it away to the new owners. Watch my Monday YouTube video next week to see the completed pillow.

This is the center piece for a leather pillow I’m making. It’s the view I could see from my window on my recent trip to Montana. The scene is created entirely with leather and I’ve hand-cut fringe to go around the pillow.