I recently watched this video by Corter and it was a bit of an aha moment.
Whether it’s repair, changing the thread colour or in my case fixing some mistakes … I love how leather products can be opened up and redone. Not everything of course but the stitch line is fairly simple to revamp, billets are quickly replaced and even edges can be re-burnished.
I love the 2nd bag that I ever made a lot but it was my second bag. I had missed a whole and one corner was therefore off, I attached the buckle upside down (it works but looks off) and a seam was opening up. Burnished edges weren’t good yet.
So I sat down today and fixed it all. It was easier than I thought and it’s a nice upgrade! I wish I had taken before and after pics.
Heh. I sometimes think I should go back and revisit some of my projects (not just leather but woodworking and knives too). Then I think that maybe I should just leave them and use them as a way to measure my progress. I was happy with it at the time, and I’ve grown since. So what. It’s nice to see what you did end up with at that time and how far you’ve come.
It’s a bit like an author rewriting parts of books they wrote years back. They shouldn’t!
So I then leave them and just look at and embrace the faults and learnings :)