Two Dog collars and two leashes

[Tove09Tilda]

Well, my mum called again and asked for a new collar. Planned was only the yellow one with a matching leash, but as her Spinone Italiono grew out of his old orange collar and I still have a little of this lovely red sheepskin plus some orange dye, she got two. I'm very happy with the collars as they turned out beautifully. The lashes, let's say they are part of a learning process. The blue one is for my dog, therefore the hardware is smaller. I always use the rule of thumb of the dogs weight times 4 as the minimum breakage point of the hardware. The yellow one is solid brass and about 1,70m (custom measure) and the blue one standard length with steel hardware. 

She already has such a set, entirely hand sewn, in green, that holds up lovely despite being used almost everyday. The orange collar, will for now on be his dog-training collar for when he has professional training. I'm feeling a bit nostalgic as I made his first collar as well as the last ones of our deceased dog. Her last collar was green, her first handmade one orange. This colour become something special therefore, and If I should ever sell collars one type, only available in green and orange, will be named Tilda! 

[TomE]

Good looking leads and collars!  I like the way you sewed the chapes on the ends of the rope leads.  You are motivating me to make a leather collar for our new border collie rescue.  He arrived a week ago and we've been his foster home until today when the mandatory hold on adoption is over and we can officially claim him as our own.  We have another border collie who is teaching him how to (mis)behave around the farm.