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Leather Needle Sizes
Picking the right needle for hand-sewing leather can be the difference between a 30-minute job and an hour. If your sewing needles are ill-suited to your work, you will fight through every stitch on...
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Cutting a Leather Belt End by Hand
Sometimes, you need to cut a leather belt end or a strap end but don’t have an end punch. Or you might have a few end punches but none that will fit the strap width you need. Today’s leatherworking...
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How Many Stitches Per Inch for Leather
When I look at the guides for stitches per inch, there are several ‘rules of thumb’ out there, and upon further digging, it seems like most of them are made up or there are many exceptions to the...
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How to Use a Glue Pot for Leatherworking
Today’s short post on using a glue pot will help you complete your leatherworking projects a little faster. This is the kind of tip you’d never hear if you are self-taught and work alone. Many...
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What Do The Different Sewing Thread Sizes Mean For Leatherworking?
There are many articles, YouTube videos, and blog posts about sewing leather, but there are a few about one subject many people find confusing: thread size. When originally writing the content for...
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How To Choose The Best Thread For Finer Leather Work
A while back, a Reddit user asked, “[what is the] best thread for finer work?” Many people wrote in to say that our linen thread was at the top of their list. The original question. Update: Since...
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How to Store Leather
A while back, I wrote about how setting up your workspace is important to improving your leatherworking projects. Setting up purposefully for your work, your mise en place, leads to faster, easier,...
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Giving Space for Your Creativity
Giving yourself adequate time is important when exploring your leathercraft style and design. People regularly practice sketching and forming roughs in other arts like drawing and sculpting. In...
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Not All Leathercraft Projects Are Flat
Not all leatherworking projects are flat. Most are not. I consider flat projects to be mats, journal covers, card cases, wallets, and belts. Yes, they have components requiring true three-dimensional...
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Details on a Leather Valet Tray
I wanted to make a valet tray, refine the details, and make it my own. I’ve seen others do them stitched together or use snaps so that they can lay flat. While I like the utility, I don’t see myself...
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