When I first get my leather, it is a color best described as soft tan-peach. It's beautiful. I take my trusty 12 dollar swivel knife ( my fiance tried to buy me a new one that was both expensive and aesthetically pleasing, and I couldn't shake my love for the cheap starter knife, go figure :) ) and carve in the design of choice. And tool and tool and tool until satisfied. For the center of this belt the design is a rose. When you see it finished, it's shades of brown, antiqued and wiped away. For now, for a day, it is peach.
Every project brings with it the unexpected, exhilarating and slightly frightening reality that a bevy of things could happen that would merit a restart: knife slips, leather takes the antique poorly, cat decides to help, etc...but then when it's done it feels like a mountain climbed.
I am in the foothills now :)
1 comment:
I too use a cheap old swivel knife, but I have a really nice blade in which to me is the important part. It's nice to read a blog from another leatherworker and see we feel the same way when starting a tooled piece.
Oh, and the rose is gorgeous, I'm a bit jealous. :-)
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