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My latest two pieces. The dragonfly wallet/purse thing is for my wife who doesn't like purses but complains about her old wallet being too small and not having a coin pouch.

I'm open to any suggestions for making the cross-loop lacing more seamless where I finished it off. I just watched a Youtube video to learn from, and I couldn't get the ending to look as seamless as I'd like (you can see it in the upper left above the dragonfly). Are there any tricks to doing this step?

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cool stuff......love the frog thingy....and the idea of wrapping a bottel or container ur way is neat....very nice carving and coloring....

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Thanks, Jimbob! Actually the bottle is made from leather and beeswax- there's no bottle inside of it. The beeswax makes it very hard and waterproof!

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Nice work! You've got me thinking!

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Looks good....both projects that is..... I am sorta wondering how you got that lace fault? I usually follow the same technique and go up to the starting position as you have, then i would go 2 holes passed to make it blend, my tip here is to skive your lace down for a few inches so as not to look bulky or doubled over.... then i apply a cement on the lace where it will exit the final hole, pull it out hard and trim it off clean... it will then disappear in the hole.

I also can't see enough details from the image, but it nearly looks like your a hole out or a plait out.... sorry... wish i could see it better.... it's also very important to make a hidden start to your lace if your going to be coming back to join into it.... like a rope splice sorta... that's where i can't make out the actual start and where the intersection is... hope this helps somewhat.... cheers Jace

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I had similar problems when I started lacing. The best thing I can tell you is to loosely lace the beginning three holes to give you slack to finish the job. The lacing directions in the Leatherwork Manual by Al Stohlman are a great reference for lacing. Just keep working with it and it will start looking how you want it. Nice work.

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Thank you, I appreciate the advice! I'll see if I can find that manual in the library, but I think keeping the first few stitches loose might just do the trick.

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That frog has some really nice detail and the coloring is right on. I waited a few days to click this topic because I didn't think it was my cup of tea. I'm glad I clicked though because otherwise I would have missed some outstanding tooling.

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