Ideas for intro to stamping/carving class

[oddball]

I teach adult evening courses at my local vocational/technical school. My main class is Intro to Blacksmithing but have taught Intro to leatherworking/sheathmaking. The sheathmaking course was a 3 night 3 hours each course. We made key fobs the first night so people could learn to layout, cut, punch, stitch and dye. The students all brought knifes needing sheaths and at the end of the first night we laid out our sheaths on manilla folder, they were sent home with more folders so they could try a few designs. Night 2 templates were tweaked and leather was marked cut out and punched. Stitching was started and requested to be finished at home. Night 3 we did button studs dressed the edges and dyed the sheaths. The school has asked me to come up with another leatherworking class. I want to do an introduction to stamping/carving with stitching and lacing with a few simple projects that would be attractive to both men and women. So far I have corner style bookmarks, and a coozie type thing for a mason jar with a mug handle. Any other ideas would be appreciated that class would not be until fall session so I won't need a full plan until June. The class would be 8 students 6 sessions of 3 hours with less than an hour of demonstration each night. 

Leather-Mason-Jar-Holder-Pattern.pdf

[DieselTech]

1 hour ago, oddball said:

I teach adult evening courses at my local vocational/technical school. My main class is Intro to Blacksmithing but have taught Intro to leatherworking/sheathmaking. The sheathmaking course was a 3 night 3 hours each course. We made key fobs the first night so people could learn to layout, cut, punch, stitch and dye. The students all brought knifes needing sheaths and at the end of the first night we laid out our sheaths on manilla folder, they were sent home with more folders so they could try a few designs. Night 2 templates were tweaked and leather was marked cut out and punched. Stitching was started and requested to be finished at home. Night 3 we did button studs dressed the edges and dyed the sheaths. The school has asked me to come up with another leatherworking class. I want to do an introduction to stamping/carving with stitching and lacing with a few simple projects that would be attractive to both men and women. So far I have corner style bookmarks, and a coozie type thing for a mason jar with a mug handle. Any other ideas would be appreciated that class would not be until fall session so I won't need a full plan until June. The class would be 8 students 6 sessions of 3 hours with less than an hour of demonstration each night. 

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4 inch Square double layer coasters. Tool 1 side or both sides. Teach them stitch line layout, the border layout, then the stamp pattern layout. Then glue & stitch the double sided coaster together. Can even make a leather coaster holder. 

[AlZilla]

Well, Wallets, Hatbands and Coasters all give an opportunity for stamping and carving.

Here's an interesting post from an old leather hand stranded away from his tools and how he scratched the leather crafting itch with starter tools:

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/125186-leather-projects-using-50-dollars-of-amazon-tools/#comment-771141

Trolling WalterF's posts on his profile page should turn up more than a few ideas.

 

[Mablung]

Something like a notebook cover is a bit larger but provides ample space for working on carving, edge finishing, and stitching.  Those can be large or small, simple or complex.

[oddball]

10 minutes ago, Mablung said:

Something like a notebook cover is a bit larger but provides ample space for working on carving, edge finishing, and stitching.  Those can be large or small, simple or complex.

That is one of the items I was thinking of journal/day planner

[oddball]

23 minutes ago, AlZilla said:

Well, Wallets, Hatbands and Coasters all give an opportunity for stamping and carving.

Here's an interesting post from an old leather hand stranded away from his tools and how he scratched the leather crafting itch with starter tools:

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/125186-leather-projects-using-50-dollars-of-amazon-tools/#comment-771141

Trolling WalterF's posts on his profile page should turn up more than a few ideas.

 

Thanks 

 

[Hags]

Ditto on the notebook covers.