pattern making

My preferred method of making patterns these days is to cover a last, first with plastic wrap then with strips of newspaper soaked in watered down fabric stiffener.  I can draw the basic shoe design on the resulting papier mache form and cut out the design elements from it.  These become the foundation of my pattern.  One day I may make a shoe using some of the actual papier mache

A famous writer (Wilde? Flaubert?) once wrote of his day, "I spent all morning putting in a comma only to spend all afternoon taking it out."
My day of shoemaking was a little like that.
But I am very excited.
I will be displaying my shoes at the South Pasadena Library in November.
They're anxious to get out of the house.

'C.C. Rider'

Update: I've changed the name to C.C. Rider (my sister's idea) in honor of our mom - Carol Constance - who loved to roller skate.

I'm calling this one 'Derby' as in roller derby but perhaps it should be called 'Oxford' as I learned yesterday that an 'oxford' is a shoe with the eyelet tab sewn underneath the vamp (as it is here) as opposed to a 'derby' which is a shoe with the eyelet tab sewn over the vamp.  This being true I should really rename the shoes I called 'The Oxfords' to 'The Derbies'.  But I don't think I'll do that.  I'm not that anal.