Jitsi?

And Larry Ellison puts money into his charity looking into how to live forever…

No divider just yet, buying tools bit by bit so that is all just measured by hand and ruler. These are all pieces for practice atm rather than intentionally making something nice. The leather thickness and thread width haven’t come into it just yet, I’ve literally just got a 2kg bag of leather offcuts so its the luck of the draw if something is thick or thin or in the right colour.

The first one is made with 0.8mm anebraid thread provided by the place I did the workshop at (and almost certainly not done with enough tension) and the second red thread is 1mm cheapo ebay waxed thread to tide me over.

Even the stitching chisels were just the 3.8mm ones that came in the little toolkit I got from the workshop (all of them are done with the same chisels). Essentially yeah, nothing is perfect yet but I don’t intend it to be, my main focus is on skills rather than finished items.

Thank you for the input though!

I originally tried to use Inkscape to make a simple pattern but I found it frustrating to make anything of accurate size. I then decided to have a go with LibreCAD instead and found it far more intuitive to make things accurately. It can ouput to svg, pdf and png as well as using dxf natively. I plan to get a cheap little cnc router to just send a pattern and get something cut out of wood or acrylic.

I’ve been curating a list of UK resources for my own use:

https://stormleather.com/ - Leather
https://identityleathercraft.com/ - Leather, supplies, events, workshops
https://www.jwoodleathers.co.uk/ - Leather
https://www.leathermerchantsussex.co.uk/ - Leather
https://www.jhleather.co.uk/ - Workshops, tutorials
https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/littlebearco - Supplies
https://www.hedgehogleather.co.uk/ - Leather, supplies
https://leather4craft.co.uk/ - Leather, supplies, workshops
https://www.georgebarnsleyandsons.co.uk/ - Toolmaker
https://armitageleather.com/ - Workshops, info