This skirt piece was completely finished. It had been cut out, skived, stitch-marked, Edge Koted and sealed. There was nothing left to do it it save actually put it on the saddle...
Unfortunately, I just couldn't leave well enough alone. I decided it needed a little more skiving right there along the lower front edge. Bad idea. I skived right through the leather. Ugh! I've remade the piece, but I can't quite bring myself to throw the damaged one away. I have a whole pile of little scraps like this in the bottom of my tooling leather box. Maybe someday I'll find a use for them. Maybe someday I'll stopping making more of them. Hope springs eternal, right?
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Been there...done that! I have a lot of scraps to prove it LOL
ReplyDeleteMe too. I am ashamed to admit how much leather and fabric I waste because of trial and error and little "oopsies" like this. aargh.
ReplyDeleteSo familiar...! I know I don't have to skive any more, it's ok as it is, but there's always this tiny voice in my head - "do it, do it, you'll see, it will look/fit so much better". Yeah, right! That usually happens with bridles.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably really obvious, but how do you do the stitch markings? How do you do them at SM scale too?
ReplyDeleteI use a pounce wheel to make the stitch marking. I bought mine from MicroMark a decade ago and it's still going strong!
ReplyDeleteI'm no expert on stabemate scale tack. I've made two saddles that size and I didn't stitch mark either of them. Instead I tooled a light groove around the edge.
Skiving is the reason I don't make my own tack; I just couldn't figure it out, and I would probably spend more time and money trying to do it myself, then purchasing tack from the experts! I stick to my props and dioramas instead; those I can handle, but not the slicing of microscopic leather in half!
ReplyDeleteThat always happens to me with lace. Usually right smack-dab in the middle where I can't just trim it off and make a slightly shorter strap. Especially infuriating on harness reins.
ReplyDeleteWhat about making a saddle out of this sort of scraps to be a really "used" sort of saddle? Might turn out really awesome!
ReplyDeleteI have an idea for stuff from your scraps bag. You could use it in an unconventional scene set up: a tack restorer at work!
ReplyDeleteShannor--that would be so cute. I could even make a little stitching horse to go with it!
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad I'm always better at ideas than execution!