Crafty Things! Making Leather Rose Part 4, assembly

[magpie49]

I seem to have an insanely huge number of photos to go with this, so I'm using multiple cuts to hide them.  That way, if you're on a slow connection, you don't have to wait for all the photos to load at once.

Got your rubber bands handy?  You'll need them today.

Comments

i'm missing something :)

[theindigogypsy]

For some reason I can't seem to find parts 1-3 of the leather rose tutorial? Could you please point me in the right direction? Thanks so much. :)

Re: i'm missing something :)

[magpie49]

Here's a link to part 1:
http://magpie49.livejournal.com/4932.html
Part 2:
http://magpie49.livejournal.com/5250.html
Part 3:
http://magpie49.livejournal.com/5555.html

thanks!!

[theindigogypsy]

Thank you so very much. I think a trip to the store is now in order. :)

Re: thanks!!

[magpie49]

You're very welcome.

A few other examples of my leather work are on my magpiesnest page, along with earrings and such.

If you make leather lacing, I made a video to demonstrate the use of TLF's lacemaker. It's on yutube.

Leather Rose

[kilbybeauty]

Hi, I am new to working with leather so I have a quick question. What is the best leather to use? Do I have to use tooling leather or can I use just regular scraps? If I can use regular scraps should they be thick or thin or does it matter? Your tutorial is a great help, thank you for posting!
Thanks for the help!

Re: Leather Rose

[magpie49]

Vegetable tanned leather is best to use for wet forming, which is what you are doing when you make the leather rose.

Tooling leather is vegetable tanned leather.

I make tiny versions of the roses for earrings from very thin and flexible chrome tanned garment leather, usually pig, but that requires that I use something to "starch" the tiny roses so they keep their shape.

Feel free to experiment with what you have, and let me know how it works.