Screwed It Up -- Now What To Do With It?

[Jim]

Welcome to the club. We have room for new members, although we do our very best to keep membership at an all time low. As is why we help in any way we can.

Offer them up to whoever will take them as long as you tell them it has an "oops" factor. The terms are yours to set.

That being said, I have one on the wall with a sign under it that reads "Don't EVER do this again!"

Jim

[tnhomestead]

Jim -- I like that idea! Only problem is my wall would get coated with signs! LOL Thanks for the ideas, I like the sell discounted/swap for beer suggestions if the piece is functional and looks decent. Otherwise, its going in the trash -- that ought to make me work harder -- I cant afford to throw leather away.

[Jim]

I would make a point to use bellies for the prototypes. It's cheap and doesn't hurt so much when it it doesn't work the first time. But, I would then know what to do to fix the issue with the new design.

Until you have a Tried and True pattern, use cheap leather. It's happened to all of us.

Jim

[KrisbeeKream]

As a newbie myself, I totally understand the pain. Even cheap leather stops being cheap when the mistakes are big enough! But the upside is lots of leather scraps. I have more than I know what to do with now. I've used my scrap bag for various straps, and I've been looking at small projects as well. There are some cool scrap projects on the pattern subforum. The cell phone stand keychain on the first page is easy as hell and uses up pretty small scraps.

[club49]

Give it to your mother-in-law, when she straps it on, get out of town.