Klara

Here's the first leather collar. Made with household tools (but I hadn't yet heard about using a fork to mark stitches). As I said, ugly, but Rika doesn't care... And the leather is nice and soft.

Hi, I feel I should apologise for intruding I don't know whether I even want to be a leatherworker (I'll certainly never reach the skill level of some of you), I do know that my Borzoi needs collars! Collars that I can't buy locally... So far I have woven them (I'm a spinner, weaver, dyer with my own sheep) but I want to branch out into leather. The first collar turned out ugly, but it is functional and the dog likes it. And the total cost was zero, as I have some leather lying around that I bought ages ago for making soles for indoor slippers before I realised nobody here wanted to buy knitted slippers. The leather is probably garment leather (got scraps from a wholesaler) and I've realised that it's not what is generally used for dog collars and video tutorials don't really apply, but as the French say: "On fait ce qu'on peut avec ce qu'on a" (you do what you can with what you have). I have an idea for the second collar (and a curve ruler, which makes all the difference) but also a question, which I will ask in the dog collar forum.