I worked on some leather projects over the past month.
First project was some new jewelry for my good boy. This one was an original design that mostly came together although it got kind of sloppy halfway through. It’s triple-layered with 8/9oz veg tan + 5/6oz crazy horse buffalo + 2/3oz veg tan inside (dyed brown). It was quite an effort hand-stitching a needle through that much leather.
I put together this bag, as well. The pattern on this one was acquired online so it’s not an original design, although I did have to modify it in a few ways (mostly internally). It was all hand-sewn and each of those holes was punched one at a time; and yes, it sucked as much as you would imagine. It is extremely heavy and has a fair amount of leather inside so it’s probably impractically overbuilt at about 6 lbs empty. The hardware is all either solid copper or copper-plated, and I couldn’t find suitably matching zippers… so I had to make them using zipper tape, copper pulls, and top and bottom stops. The wine colored leather is an oil-tan with lots of pull-up and the right balance of flexibility while still holding its shape and feeling reasonably soft. The brown that makes up all the accent pieces and straps is the same crazy horse buffalo used in the dog collar.
Last one is a carving panel that some of you might have seen me working on in creative arts during the MANY hours it took to complete it… I want to say that I’m grateful for the compliments that people gave me over that time.
This initially was just a practice exercise so I unfortunately started with a less-than-perfect piece of economy veg tan that had a few cuts / blems. However, I did end up turning it into the front panel of a laptop sleeve.
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