Fur and leather.

I was recently passed down some items of sentimental value. There’s some kind of strange stuff; teeth, tusks, furs, leather tooling equipment, scrimshaw equipment… shells… hammers… photos….

Already sounds like an amazing contemporary art piece, or like something you’d find on Regretsy.

I look at this pile of stuff, and it’s strange. On one hand, they’re items totally outside of any medium I work in. On the other hand, they’re items totally outside of any medium I work in. There’s a feeling, something like a mixture of apprehension and excitement. Apprehension because I don’t know where to start, and will be sad if it screws up. Excitement because I could make something amazing.

So I’ve been researching fur and leather.

I am started with Pinterest, as a matter of fact. After scrolling through faux fur tutorial #2245, I decided to have a look at Youtube instead. There’s a couple of interesting videos available;

Fur sewing with Joelene

Sewing with Fur

Which I watched to get an idea about what I could be doing. I also watched this one, because I like to repair couches sometimes.

Repairing a leather couch tutorial

Hand sewing leather

Then I got to use it the other day, to repair a phone case!

Skilled from fur and leather tuts – my stitches are the purple ones

So there you go. Two skills learned from uploaded videos this year, which have been applied to real life.