Shiny Things Gallery | Bracelets | Other | Drama Cuff
Commissioned week-and-a-day-(oops) project. The commissioner spent an incredibly long time looking for just the right pendant/charm, but the rest was pretty easy to decide on.
This is some leftover leather from a vest that I... tore apart and repurposed into a bag that I've realized is not actually in gallery, and one edge most certainly retains evidence of that. We liked the "lived-in look", and it was already one nicely turned edge, so why mess with it? I hand-sewed the rest, because on top of not being all that intelligent, I didn't want to risk doing damage to my very solid steel sewing machine which may or may not retain the solid-ness given how thick the leather actually was in parts. Extra-sharp beading needle and pliers it was!
We also worked out a magnetic clasp as the favored approach to actually keeping it on, which looks a mess in the photos because... I forgot to clean the magnets before taking the pictures. ...Nevermind these details, it was all conditioned, cleaned up, polished, and very well-received, so that is success enough.
This is some leftover leather from a vest that I... tore apart and repurposed into a bag that I've realized is not actually in gallery, and one edge most certainly retains evidence of that. We liked the "lived-in look", and it was already one nicely turned edge, so why mess with it? I hand-sewed the rest, because on top of not being all that intelligent, I didn't want to risk doing damage to my very solid steel sewing machine which may or may not retain the solid-ness given how thick the leather actually was in parts. Extra-sharp beading needle and pliers it was!
We also worked out a magnetic clasp as the favored approach to actually keeping it on, which looks a mess in the photos because... I forgot to clean the magnets before taking the pictures. ...Nevermind these details, it was all conditioned, cleaned up, polished, and very well-received, so that is success enough.
