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Thanks so much!

So a friend of mine wants me to make him a pair of medieval-ish-style gauntlets to go with a Halloween costume. Does anyone have any patterns/recommendations/advice?

I just wanted to say... IFoLG 2007 = experience of a lifetime. I am so glad I went. Getting to see so much incredible work and meet so many talented people was definitely inspiring. I never really appreciated before that guys like Peter Main and Bill Gomer are actual people, not just names on works of art. But they are great people, not just great leathercrafters. Thanks to everyone from Lone Star for putting it all together!

I think it's interesting for the historical value. Even if it doesn't show you techniques for using the tools, it's cool to see the development of them.

That is so great! Tell Riley congratulations! I haven't read it yet but I'm sure it'll be good. And I'm glad to know y'all have already gotten your copies of the Journal, that means mine should be in soon!

Thank you so much! I got it done; if nothing else, the color matches and it'll hold it together to prevent further tearing. So thanks for the help! Ashley

Thanks y'all! Barra- upon closer examination, and from looking at the same spot on the opposite side, which is also torn but to a lesser extent, it looks like the facing (it has a word! yay) was cut almost to the stitching at the point where it meets the gullet. I guess to allow more movement without, theoretically, tearing the leather. That would kind of make sense design-wise. It's a Courbette Arosa close-contact saddle if that helps. Thank you so much! More pictures attached.

A friend of mine is off to Pony Club Rally in a week and a half and needs a quick repair job on her saddle. Unfortunately there are no professionals around here that can get it done by the time she needs it. So, since I've been messing around with leatherwork for the last year and a half, I was elected. (I did warn her that I have no idea what I'm doing and am more likely to mess it up than fix it properly, but she said as long as it was serviceable and Pony Club approved she didn't care what it looked like. The only reason she wants anything done about it in the first place is that the Horse Management judges at Rally Camp told her it was a potential "safety hazard," and if she was at actual Rally her team would get points taken off for it. But anyway. There's a picture of it attached.) To actually do a good job of this, I'd probably have to take out the torn piece and replace it, but I don't have the time, the tools or the know-how to do that. So I'll have to do a patch job instead. Do you think if I take a little piece of leather to fold over the torn spot, do a really thorough job of skiving and dyeing, and use really small stitches, it'll look all right? Either way it isn't going to affect the functionality of the saddle, and she says it doesn't matter if I mess up, but I don't want it to look too horrible. Or if anyone has a better way to go about it please share.