Leather Girl

Welcome fellow Albertan,welcome to this great leather site. Randi-Lee

Welcome to as others have said the best leather forum on the web. Now it depends on how limited your tools are but than can be accomplished with minimal tools. Always try it out on some scrap leather. Once you get the pattern onto the leather and start working with the knife and other tools you will see how easy it is. If you have some deer foot tools they are a help in this and would work well. Randi-Lee

Vegtan leather is still leather not vegetable. Basically the only thing one could do this on is using a wood burning tool and burning it into wood but wood is not help at all. The only thing you can do with faux leather is sew it. So you will have to tell your vegan friend it is leather or nothing. Randi-Lee

As I pay more in Canada for leather etc., along with if I have to ship it in. If I ship it in it is the cost of goods, shipping, what I am hit for gst and customs along with brokerage. I charge $30. per hour on top of it for my labour and tooling, I like to leave a little wiggle room and people always whine I am too expensive. However they will go to the GAP and buy cheap crappy leather made in some sweat shop and pay twice the price. Then it will either fall apart or crack and they just wasted $600. on a crap vest. Randi-Lee

I too should buy shares in TLF, I own enough of that place. I then too can retire and live in the lap of luxury for five minutes. Randi-Lee

Very nice Green Man Bag. Now I will explain the Green Man. He is known by many names because of the cultures but more so in areas of England, Wales, Ireland he is the lord of the forest and also will contain many aspects as Cernunnos lord of the forest creatures. He is also Pan, the Greek God of the Forest.

Well Cheryl, Great job. Up here conchos of leather have two slits in them, no good. That is why I thought you had made them and very perfectly too. The horse eye is very perfect and I am even thinking of ordering some. I love them. Those are not heavy so you could still make them into earrings. Randi-Lee

I went to Tandy and was given many items for free, I use them as templates. Then I they gave me some things at 2 for one and picked up some leather and will have to go back probably in a week to get more leather. Let's face it I should have shares in Tandy and they know me and usually I don't walk out of there under $300. I deserve things for free. Randi-Lee

Great job, looks good. Randi-Lee

It is beautiful. That is the difference all the things I do I enjoy and wish there was more of me to do that. Are you using 4-5 oz for the eyes and it looks like you are cutting them out with a olfa cutter that has the pinked edge. Randi-Lee

Cheryl, You did such an awesome job I thought it was a stone. That looks just like the eye of a horse and it reminds me of the horses I have loved who are no longer with me and how much I loved them. Randi-Lee

Cheryl, That is me, always late to the party. Well now the only one you have to please is yourself and that is a good thing. Yes, running a business is crazy stuff but because of issues in partnerships I won't have a partner. I run about four businesses and I make all the product for three of them and it is driving me nuts. That is because it is all labour intensive. Randi-Lee

Hi Luke, We were all beginners at one time and that holster not bad for a newbie. You never waste cowhide you just use the other pieces for other things. Randi-Lee

Sweet! What kind of stone did you use for the eye? These are very adorable. Randi-Lee

I have recently tried the waterstain and was also impressed with it. One of the more impressive things was the fact by accident a piece of it went in the washing machine and dryer. It came out very well and nothing on my clothes and nothing off the leather. Glad it was a trial piece that ended up there. Lesson: do not stick leather in your pocket and not check them before washing. I call it my blonde trick. Randi-Lee

This is not a leather to be tooled. However there is lots one can do with it without tooling it. It can also be used on bar stools. I would take it and tool perhaps the outside of holster and then put this in the middle to add something different. Randi-Lee

Welcome to the forum,there is a great bunch of folks here and great suggestions and help. Randi-Lee

Eve, Something tells me you were pulling the thread too tight and it will start to bunch up the sides. You have to sew a bit and smooth it out and sew some more. The corners are difficult and you have to be careful with them. When sewing a corner, like sewing in a sleeve of a shirt you have to be careful stretch it around corner. Best to start sewing at the top from one corner one side and do that and if it comes up a bit higher at the other corner you can trim it. This is hard to explain without showing it. Sewing a bag by hand is a royal pain in the butt. Now, I sew them on my machine and avoid that stuff. Your bag looks beautiful and I wish you all the best if you continue sewing them by hand. Randi-Lee

Hi Matt, That is one insane price for a little pouch. As others have said that is easy to make so go with it and good luck. Randi-Lee

Ray, All the best on your show and what can kill your takings more than rain is snow. Here we can and have had snow every month of the year. This year the farmers market, I get to be indoors and no struggle with the tent in hail and high winds. My favorite show is by far the Medieval Faire. Randi-Lee

How very interesting, that explains why I could not find a lot of information on it. It is beautiful and vey labour intensive this is the first time I have seen this. Randi-Lee

Yes, huge difference between 22 and 44, that is why I rechecked with him. We were discussing 22's etc. probably why I got confused. He is looking for a more traditional style. If you know the names of the packs I might be able to pick it up at Tandy's Thanks, Randi-Lee

It looks like thread in it. So the question is, is it thread. If it is then it would be a long tedious project. One would have to punch lots of little holes because getting and embroidery needle through it would be impossible. The embroidery machines in the malls are worth about 50k maybe more now for a single head.Those will do very thin leathers and depending on the make, a Tajima will do about half inch thick of cloth not leather. You would almost need doeskin or probably a 2-3 oz piece to have it embroidered. It would be very expensive because it is charged by the number of stitches needed. Randi-Lee

Eve, Are you sewing the bag by hand? Sewing by hand has it's issues but I don't see much wrong with it either. The closeups would be better. Randi-Lee