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So, my mom had admired the pink-donut BHQ SD Classic I've got, but it is of course, rather small. I had discovered there was another donut line in a better color for her anyways, in a larger model. The problem with these particular ones ais that they're pretty easy to show wear on! So, I thought of buying a slip for the Tinker, but I figured I need to learn some things anyways and it could not be too hard, learned a few stitches from my fiancé to get some of my muscle-memory back for this kind of thing, and did this after a few practice attempts on leather that I took off of a street-couch. As I started stitching, if you look at the product, you see my rapid improvement, from the first 10 stitches being widely spaced and not-smooth, to the stitches being very clean and proper after there.
It was important to me that I do the entire thing by hand, but major props to my fiancé for giving me ideas to simplify it. I hope to make more of these cases. Very fun. Pro-tip - if you are a DIY person and beginning to do things in this fashion, and you are not trying to buy a lot of material, you can use less of your material by taking strips of leather off of the back, sides, wherever, on a street-couch. There are usually some laying around if you live in a suburb and keep your eyes out for a little while. It is rougher than the normal stuff, but it'll help teach you.
And also, included pics of the interior after I attached a satin interior to it, which, while hard to see, but makes it very smooth and makes it look and feel much more "professional"
Here is the inside when I had just stitched the two sides together:
And afterwards:
It was important to me that I do the entire thing by hand, but major props to my fiancé for giving me ideas to simplify it. I hope to make more of these cases. Very fun. Pro-tip - if you are a DIY person and beginning to do things in this fashion, and you are not trying to buy a lot of material, you can use less of your material by taking strips of leather off of the back, sides, wherever, on a street-couch. There are usually some laying around if you live in a suburb and keep your eyes out for a little while. It is rougher than the normal stuff, but it'll help teach you.
And also, included pics of the interior after I attached a satin interior to it, which, while hard to see, but makes it very smooth and makes it look and feel much more "professional"
Here is the inside when I had just stitched the two sides together:
And afterwards:
