Making Some Stuff

[leatherleah]

Hi! I'm Leah and I'm making leather stuffs!

I'm new to the hobby, so be nice please! I'm completely self taught, everything I'm doing I wanted to figure out rather than be instructed, so I'm probably not doing things exactly right but I don't care!

I enjoy fucking around and finding out, sometimes that means the thing I'm making gets FUBAR'd but that's okay. Making mistakes is part of the learning process- if something didn't work I'll try it differently next time.

TERFS, minors, DNI

[i-post-hilarious-tweets]

U HAVE TO SEE THIS 🤯🤯🤯🤯😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘 MT RUSHMORE

i wanna share this incredible picture with ppl so excuse the UN relevant hashtags

[armoryangel]

hi my name is luna

I'm here to do my part and prevent any trans woman I meet from not living her best life

I can't fix the world but I refuse to lose a girl on my watch

I will tell my sisters how much I understand them until I'm blue in the face

I love you all

do it for our ancestors that couldn't

do it for yourself

and if you can't do it for anyone else

do it for momma luna

[leatherleah]

Apply to work as a bartender at Chili's to join the local lesbian poly cult

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ekjohnston]

*weeps uncontrollably at 9 o'clock in the morning*

God, I love randos on the internet who just want to be kind.

[magicratfingers]

[adornedfemme]

there’s an elder leatherman and leather worker in my neighborhood who does alterations on some of my stuff for me and every time I call him on the telephone we have the exact same exchange

[adornedfemme]

- I tell him what I need done

- “you know that’s going to be a really big project, it’s actually quite complicated”

- quotes me an exceedingly reasonable price

- tells me to think on it (regardless of me insisting it’s fine), but he “won’t be waiting by the phone for me to call” and hangs up on me

- I wait 1 hour and then call him back

- tells me he’s been thinking about the project since I called and actually has some other ideas for making it work

- “okay how’s about tomorrow at 4? you can walk over to my house and I can take a look at it”

[adornedfemme]

to set the scene, the living room of his home is his workshop. along two sides of the room are all his different machines and tools, the other has open shelves packed to the ceiling with hides. a big workbench fills the center of the room.

[adornedfemme]

- he inspects the thrifted piece I’ve brought for him to alter and tells me it’s terrible

- scolds me for not having him make me something from scratch

- the entire time he’s doing measurements and starting to trim/do the initial fittings, he reiterates (in a truly exasperated manner) what a big project this is

- I sit perched on a stool in the corner while he works

- sometimes while he works he mumbles things about the last 60 years of his career as a leather worker

- inevitably charges me less than he quoted me

- sends me on my way with a few scrap pieces of leather for projects that I’m toying with

[adornedfemme]

I’m very fond of him, in many ways he reminds me of my grandpa, who was a master craftsman woodworker and made some of my furniture. there’s something comforting about his grumpiness.

[adornedfemme]

he was absolutely BEAMING when I came to pick up my chaps. ugh I’m obsessed with his work it’s so seamless and beautiful

[leatherleah]

I made a keychain! I would consider this my first complete project, I started with some scraps, a blunt canvas needle, cheap cotton thread, an ice pick, shoe polish kit, wood carving knives, beeswax, and two sharpies.

Is it objectively good? FUCK no. But I'm proud of the job I did with the experience I have (literally none)

Here's some takeaways:

Edges were "burnished" with my thumb and a brick of wax. I think it looks okay, but next time I'm going to try cutting off the ragged inside edge with a razor blade and lightly sanding before waxing. I also wish my cuts were more straight.

Hole punching with an ice pick sucks. The taper was wide enough that it left gaping holes on the front without penetrating all the way through. Also due to the diameter of the spike I had to push really really hard to punch all the way through. This meant that the needle didn't go all the way through every time! I'm very glad I didn't break it, but this really wasn't a good way of doing it.

All in all, for a first try with no proper tools, I think it turned out quite well. I'll also do edges before I stitch it together. Lesson learned!

[redstonedust]

put rainbow laces on all my shoes recently which is fun and sexy but has the side effect that i have gotten multiple "i like your shoelaces" from strangers and like. i cant NOT "i stole them from the president" in return. just in case. but its recieved mostly awkward laughs and looks of confusion. embarrasing myself in public out here over my damn shoelaces.

[redstonedust]

[leatherleah]

We have existed long enough for our own texts to return to the dust from which they were created

[kitkatpancakestack]

sidewalk art I walked by today. there is love out there.

[leatherleah]

First project finished!

Its not great, but I made it from scraps and garbage! For a first try I'm happy with how it turned out. Simple d ring strap to keep my purse closed

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[evaconly]

every time this post comes across my page on a new platform i smile because we’re all just enjoying her adorable joy

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

“She matches her new blankie” is an official joy and whimsy post

[nascentnaturalist]

repaired watch, 2025 (broken casio watch repaired with epoxy putty & decorated with acrylic paint, stitched to bracelet made from scrap leather + leather snap)

[your-local-birb]

Finally finished my leather hightops after like. A whole month 🎉

[pride-knightess]

To unlock the trans knight's alternate skin, 'Urban Warrior', simply crank the ambient temperature up to a swelter in the character selection screen and press A+B.

Taken at Ashford Pride 2025, where it was too hot for plates and chainmail!

[blondebrainpowered]

Lace-up leather boots from the 1890s made by Joseph Box, bootmaker to the Prince of Wales, one of the most popular shoemakers in London during the late 19th century, inspired by the footwear of a certain clientele, extremely high heeled boots seem to have appealed to fashionable circles.

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