Tag Archives: cowboyboots

Bluebonnets and scissortails take a while to stitch.

This is an excellent example of a graceful inlaid and perforated (the little dots along the edges) cowboy boot top band.

Here’s a little peek at the process of assembling an inlay/overlay design. A design this complex requires much thought about how the pieces will be shaped, which parts will go over and which will go under, and what order they’ll … Continue reading →

Soon we’ll find out if all of these oddly-shaped little pieces will come together to make flowers and birds.

I don’t necessarily look forward to punching hundreds of tiny holes by hand one-at-a-time, but I sure love the way it looks along an edge! When you punch holes along an edge in shoe making it’s called Brogueing, but when … Continue reading →

New design for a pair of boots honoring both Oklahoma (scissortail bird) and Texas (bluebonnets)

I am pleased to report that I was able to get the lasts out of these boots today!

After I’ve built the heels to the correct height, I add the rubber heel cap. Next I pull the lasts out so I can do the final heel shaping. Or… I try very hard to get the lasts out, fail … Continue reading →

Friday afternoon at my shop I taught a two hour class for ten students and their instructors, from a college costume design course in Oklahoma City. That’s a whole lot of people to try and teach how to cut and … Continue reading →

I can’t stop playing with asymmetry. I love a design that isn’t symmetrical but it is balanced, so that’s always my goal.