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About caseroni
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Profile Information
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Gender
Female
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Location
Northeastern Colorado
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Interests
Art, Listening to music, family and of course, leather!
LW Info
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Leatherwork Specialty
Not sure yet
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Interested in learning about
tooling, bag making
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I use a program called GIMP which is free to download. This is something I have used for years for any photo/image manipulation. It's pretty powerful for a free program.
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You make some really nice stuff, Craig. Welcome!
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Hi kc! I'm new too. Welcome!
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Thank you! You are all so welcoming here! This drawing might be better for carving.
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I am also new to this forum and to leathercrafting. I have learned a lot, too. Information overload. Thanks so much for posting this. I will definitely look these up.
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Wow, thanks for writing that! It answered a lot of my questions and addressed many of the issues I have been having.
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I just put an avatar on my profile and I didn't realize how big my face would be. Haha. I might have to work on that.
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Thanks for the welcome! On sewing, I have a Kenmore sewing machine. Nothing fancy at all. It works fine for cloth, but it will only sew through thin leather with a leather needle. I haven't decided on the types of bags I want to make, but I sure don't have the dough to drop on a nice heavy duty leather machine. I wish I did, though. I'll take a look around the sewing forum, though and perhaps I will learn what it will take, machine-wise to get going. I finally did my first tooling project and it doesn't look as good as I would like, but it was really my 4th shot at leather tooling, I guess. We are our own worst critics, I suppose. This one was a wallet kit I made for my husband from Tandy. I want to move toward doing custom work, but I am sure I have a long road! Anyway, it is lots of fun, and I look forward to gaining and improving skills. I spent many years drawing and painting with oils and acrylics and switching media is a challenge, but I am up for it. A few months ago I started doing these charcoal rodeo/western drawings. I posted one of those, even though it is not really leather related. And here is the wallet. I haven't really figured out the staining yet. I think I need to put some kind of layer of varnish(terminology?) on top but I really don't want it to be shiny. Any help is appreciated.
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That looks great! I am just starting out, too. Yours looks so clean and sharp!
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Hello! I am Case from Colorado! I am very very new to leatherwork. Just attended a class last Saturday on leather tooling and now I am hooked. Not sure what direction I plan to go with it. I also make purses and bags out of fabric but want to make them out of leather. So, maybe I will somehow integrate sewing and tooling. Anyway, I posted a picture of my 3rd shot at a little practice scrap with a template I found on the Tandy website. Thanks for approving my membership, here and I hope to get to know you all better! Case