These wing and countertips are ready and waiting for a boot.

These wing and countertips are ready and waiting for a boot.

It’s the start of something new!

Here’s a link to my latest YouTube video. In case you’re curious about them, I do a monthly video that’s 9-12 minutes long. The first 3-5 minutes are some technical explanation of a machine, tool, or technique. The rest of each episode is about my life as a boot maker; sometimes it features Morgan, or the farm animals, or my travels, or visitors to my shop.
In this episode, in addition to explaining how lasts work, I teach Morgan to make bread and sing with my cousins.
Look, just LOOK, at the boot tops I get to do next! They’re a reproduction of the iconic “Satan Is Real” album cover by the Louvin Brothers.


Here’s a link to my presentation at the American Women Artists Symposium in Tucson, Arizona.
Here’s an example of how I work with clients to design a pair of boots.
This is the design for the front panels…

the design for the back panels….

the design for the foot…

and the completed pair of cowboy boots.

I’ve been doing research on boot designs.

“The last shall be first” is a rule in boot making too.

I’ve been traveling and don’t have a current project to photograph, but here’s a boot I made not too long ago. This boot has an alligator foot, and the boot tops feature 10 rows of stitching.

Close-up of 10 rows of stitching

Here’s visual proof that all of the decorative work in my shop is done on an old single-needle Singer sewing machine.

Here’s a link to my YouTube video for October.