Here is my boot strap separated from the boot mesh. It was easy to do this lecture and I understood it pretty well. My only issue is that the origin of the boot strap is where the origin of the boot was (or is). I tried to move it but the mirror modifier did some crazy things to the mesh.
I don’t know if the origin being in an odd spot will cause me problems in the future but here is the boot strap around the boot.
