filling in stitching holes

[Rannoch]

What is the best technique for filling in or otherwise hiding holes made by sewing gone awry?  When you make a mistake and pull the thread out, the holes remain.  Is there a compound our technique for filling in these holes or masking them?

thanks

[Rahere]

First see if they'll swell closed with water. If cut with a sharp awl, it's not unknown. If punched so material's been removed, gluing a plug from the same punch and material might work too.

[Norton Custom Leather]

Rannoch you may be able to fill the holes depending on the final color of the leather. Black yes, show brown yes

[Handstitched]

One thing I have used is the left over bits of boot polish that have gone a bit hard in the tin . I use them fill any marks etc. , ...or holes ,  on hard leathers ,  mostly black, , sort of like a ' body filler' , and being polish they finish up quite good .  I guess a bit of hard bees wax might work too . Hope this helps a bit   

HS

[Rannoch]

Thanks for the replies.  I'll give these ideas a try.

I wonder if anyone has tried to fill them with paint?  Getting the color just right could be difficult.

 

[JayEhl]

I read somewhere on here how some folks were mixing leather 'dust' with some superglue to create plugs.  May want to give that a try?  

[Rahere]

1 hour ago, JayEhl said:

I read somewhere on here how some folks were mixing leather 'dust' with some superglue to create plugs.  May want to give that a try?  

It'll be too stiffl for anything worthwhile. In extremis, experiment with silocon caulk molding< thinning caulk with naphtha?white spirits< the using leather powder reather than cornflour as the thickener>

Edited May 5, 2021 by Rahere

[chuck123wapati]

can you fill them with fake stitches? Cover them with some type of do dad like maybe a concho or something similar?

[jcuk]

I have used Bees wax works okay not perfect but ok.

 

Hope this helps

JCUK

 

[sbrownn]

If this is something you are selling and that wetting with water and burnishing won't fix, then either reduce the price with the customer's approval or start over; if it is something for yourself then don't worry about it.  Customers pay for the quality of your leather work so it's up to you what you want that quality to be.  When I am making an item for a customer that I make a mistake on I usually just start over and give the one with the mistake to the customer for free.