Lisa Sorrell, cowboy boot maker

It will be a while before I get to make these boots, but they’re making me happy already!

These are the colors and leathers.

Here’s another peek at the “Satan Is Real” cowboy boots. Often with a non-traditional design such as this one, I feel it’s most attractive when it’s flat and putting it on a cowboy boot makes me like it less. I’m liking this design more and more though.

Tomorrow I’ll sew the side seams and they’ll begin to look like boots.

In other news, Satan has tiny hands and protruding front teeth.

Whooops, I’m talking all biblical.

I’m always interested in how stitching changes inlay and overlay, but usually it’s an obvious aesthetic difference. The stitching seemed to add a layer of gravity to this piece, as if it were just random bits of leather trying to imitate a photograph before, but now it’s become both a reference to the original AND its own separate piece as well.

Cause for celebration: all of the lettering is completed on this pair of boot tops

I’ve often idly wondered how small I could inlay and stitch letters, and today I found out. If these had been 1/2 a millimeter smaller I couldn’t have done it.

Every once in a while, I agree to do a project and then realize that I’m not certain it’s possible or most importantly, whether or not I can do it. This boot top definitely fell into that category but… I did it! Off to the right you can see ALL of the pattern pieces used; every color in the boot top is a different piece of leather and I created a poster board pattern for every piece.

Oh, the things I create with leather…