So recently I’ve been busy like an elf making leather projects for gifts. I finally decided to tackle my biggest challenge yet, making a pair of driving gloves for myself and then for a gift pair as well. I made 4 gloves with the smallest needle that would support the .7mm holes, I still can’t feel the tip of my right pointer from the calluses, but the end results were amazing
I want to design a new closing strap but that will come in due time after the holidays are done.
I also recently designed a keychain after seeing the over sized and over priced leathermens kits with a horrible design layout. Inkscape for the win, I edited 2 egg shapes together, connected them and threw in some precut holes for good measure. I’m pretty happy with the results and will be giving the finished products to a couple I am friends with who are Jeep fanatics.
I had a few issues with the oil based paints I had used, so using my matalic leather paints, I was able to do something that could be sealed without running!
Edit 2: when I dropped off the first two keychains, the wife of my friend had her parents over, her Dad hinted he would like one for his Dodge soooo when I got home I whipped this one up and will be delivering that one later on today
It’s a medium that requires a lot of patience when you’re working with it because you can be almost done with a project and then come to find out one little mistake make you have to start all over again. But there’s something that is so satisfying about working with it as a medium that makes it worth it.
I find that it’s a pretty good method of focusing my chaotic brain on one thing and making sure I’m taking time in all the right places, can’t wait to see what you come up with!
So I actually don’t have a 392, I’m making it for a couple I know through work, been friends with them for years, they both upgraded recently and both got 392’s. I’m making these for their Christmas gifts
The gloves absolutely, the keychains are being a bit of a pain but it’s how I’m trying to put the dye onto the tag. Just a small learning curve, nothing I can’t handle.
