My Very First Leather Craft

オットが超ボロイ車を買いました。トランクのストラップを通すパーツがもろくなってて原型をとどめていなかったため、なぜか私がパーツ修理係。元のパーツはプラスチック？か固いゴム？みたいな素材だったんだけど、皮で作り直しました。そんなわけで、レザークラフトに初挑戦。

MOTH has recently bought a very old car. A piece in a trunk that keeps straps in place had broken in pieces from sitting in leaked oil so I was recruited to make a replacement piece.

The original piece was made of some kind of plastic or hard rubber but I used a piece of veg tanned leather. I've been watching a lot of leather craft YouTube videos but this is my very first attempt to work with leather.

I cut 2 pieces of rectangular strips, glued them together, and hand-stitched around. I think I got better at the very last 4 inches. Glad I did not use a contrasting color thread, which was very tempting.

The leather I bought wasn't the finest quality and one end was very soft. I could not bevel and when I sanded the cut edges, the edges got mushroomed. Took many rounds of slicking and sanding.

I then painted the car's logo on it just to make it a bit fancy. I didn't want to bother buying a leather paint so just used regular acrylic paint. We shall see how long the paint will stay on. I am very interested in leather work and I would love to do more in the future.