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leather has to heal itself? I'm making a messenger bag and the panels and gusset material is thin and stretchy and the lining is thin and NOT stretchy. My awl laughs at me when I try and use it. So I'm nailing the sucker to a cutting board like a catfish you're getting ready to skin. Then I'm using a finishing nail to make the holes for SS. Now I don't want to nail it to the cutting board, sew a stitch, nail, sew, nail sew and therefore by the time I get to the end of on side the holes are already 'healing' themselves. Takes me using jewelry pliers to get the needle through.

I'm ok with all that. I just want to know WHY when I make a hole in leather I DON'T want it doesn't ever heal Since I seem to do that routinely Cheryl