How to Make Your Own Handmade Leather Bucket!

1. Welcome to the class: I. Hi, everyone. I hope you're doing great today. Welcome to this class, we will show you how you can make your own handmade leather bucket. I'm really excited to show you this class because this is a unique project you can easily make following very simple steps. If you're looking to make something different from leather working or maybe add something different to your decor, this bucket will surely give you that different touch you're looking for. You will learn how to prepare the leather, gluid, painted, and stitch the pieces together to form this bucket. Using simple tools. You can easily get online. Without any further ado, let's get started and see what materials and tools you'll need for this class. 2. Materials needed: The materials and tools you'll need to make this project are leather. For this pocket, you need to consider using two types of leathers, a chrome ten leather, which is soft and usually comes with a nice polished feel. This leather will be used for your exterior faces of the pocket, as well as the two black straps. The other type of leather you'll need is vegetable tan leather. This kind of leather is usually stiffer than Crompton leather and gives us the impression of having a raw finish. This leather will be glued to the Crompton leather and painted. In this way, we are achieving two things, giving each side stiffness and a different appearance on each side. The appearance will indicate what side is the outer and the inner part of the pocket, and the stiffness will help the bucket maintain itself in a vertical position. You can also work with vegetable tan leather alone if you wish. In that case, I recommend you using a two millimeter thick side. A pair of scissors. An exacto knife. A cutting mat. A cutting ruler. A scratch. Leather glue or cement. Black leather die. Carnva cream. Hey, cut and cloth. Black edge paint. One edge paint applicator. A wooden edge burnisher. DgeingGm a small piece of Canvas. A round chisel for the hole. You can use a single chisel or two hole chisel. A Poly block. A Poly Mallet. A pair of hand stitching needles, and lack polyester thread. Now, I've also used a template and made for this project. You can work yourself without a template and cut the pieces by measuring the letter directly. However, I recommend you build yourself one template for this project. For this template, I've only used four pieces, the base, the small sides, which are mostly the size of the bucket, a large side with a center on the top, which will repeat twice in the design and the struts. Part of the project for this class is for you to create your own templates. So when making your template consider the number of size you want your bucket to have, as well as the number of holes your base and size will have. Other than that, you only need to take in mind the distance between the holes. I like using a distance of 5 millimeters between each hole and 3 millimeters between the holes and the size of the templates. If you haven't seen my class on how to build a wallet template, I suggest you check it out to see what tools and materials you can find useful for building your own templates. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to prepare the leather and leave it ready for stitching the different parts together. Okay. 3. Preparing the leather parts: To begin working with the pocket, we must first make sure our leather parts are rigid enough to stand by itself once all the sides have been stitched. If we don't do this and use soft leather only, our pocket will not maintain its vertical form. For every leather part, make sure you have enough leather to cut the outer shape of that part and glue to the inner part as you see in this lesson. First, paint a vegetable tan leather with some black die until you make sure it's all covered. Once the tie is dry, apply some carnava cream all over the part and wait for it to dry and then buff the excess with a clean cotton cloth. Doing this will also polish the surface, and you will end up with a really nice smooth side. After doing this, glue both sides and let them sit for a while. In the meantime, you can do the same for the rest of the parts you'll need. Mark the edges with a ruler and scratch owl, as well as a holes throughout the entire part. With your and poly Malt place your leather part on top of your cutting mat and punch the holes. Once all the holes have been punched, cut the excess of leather with an exact knife and you're cutting. Be very careful when doing this and don't force the cuts. If the piece doesn't cut at the first passing, pass the exacto knife as many times as you need. Be very patient when doing this. Now, paint, burnish and seal the edges with your preferred brand of edge paint and seal. Some people like to leave the edges only painted, but if you take those extra steps to burnish and seal them, the piece will look. Repeat this process with all the sides of the buckets. In the next lesson, I'll show you how to stitch them together. 4. Making the side holes: This bucket design has to be holes on the largest sides. You can use a hole puncher, the size of the diameter of the hole you wish. In this case, I use a two centimeter hole puncher. These types of large hole punches are actually not used that much in leather working, and they're only needed in very specific cases such as this one. However, they do make your work easier, if you don't use one, you might need to make a smaller hole, and then some the area you wish to take out from the leather side. A. Once a hole has been cut, painted, and sealed, if you use two letters as in this case, you might consider stitching the excess of height on the sides. However, this step is optional and is more of a personal preference. For this bucket, however, I have stitched the sides with black. 5. Stitching the leather parts: To stitch the size of the bucket is very simple. At the beginning, this might feel complicated if we haven't done this before, just as with any other activity. However, all we need to do is gather a rhythm between the cross stitches. To begin with, you'll need to position the pieces you want to join as straight as possible. Then pass one needle on each le part, so both needles are facing the same side of the pieces you want to join. Cross stitch the needles by passing them through the opposite side as you'll see in the video. When both needles are positioned in the backside of the leather parts, cross the stitching to the next holes and repeat the process throughout the entire stitching lines. Look closely at the demonstration in the video and make sure to follow the steps carefully. Once you've reached half of the sides stitched together of the entire bucket, I suggest to stitch the bottom part of the side so you can have more space when stitching the other half of the bucket. The process is exactly the same, and by now, you should have gathered enough practice to faster. Oh. 6. Making the black leather straps: The black straps are very simple parts to make. This bucket design has two black straps. However, you can use as many as you wish if your bucket is larger or taller. They are built from two identical pieces assembled by cross stitching the edge with black thread. To make them gather your template you've done for this piece and make your marks where the edge and holes should go. With a ruler and a scratch, mark the limits of the straps. Punch the holes with your and your let and then proceed to cut the straps with your cutting ruler and your exacto knife. Before you stitch them together, don't forget to paint, burnish and seal the edges as with the other parts. Okay. Once the edge car is dry, cross stitches straps on both sides. 7. Stitching the straps to the bucket: The last step to finish our leather bucket is to stitch our black leather straps around all the faces. As you can see, I've already stitched the bottom strap, so you can see how it's going to look once finished at the top as well. First, insert the strap of the bucket from the top or bottom and make sure the holes of the strap are aligned with the holes of the faces of the bucket. Then measure the amount of thread needed for each phase. On average, I recommend you to use around 40 to $0.50 per stitch. The process for stitching is going to be exactly the same as we did for the faces of the bucket, even though there are many stitches we need to do, you'll find this last step to be much more relaxing and easy, since you will have more control of the thread due to a short length, and also there are no other parts lose that you have to handle at the same time when you're stitching. Even though the black straps are lose, they won't fall or apart from the bucket, which makes it easier to work with. In the next and final lesson, I'll show you how the bucket finished and the project for the class. 8. Final result: There you have it. As you can see, the straps have been stitched to the faces in every angle. Making this project is not hard and you can play with the form of the bucket to make it more triangular or you can add more sides if you wish and make the base circular to give it a totally different look. I understand this project might take some time to get used to cross stitching, but trust me, after the first two or three sides you stitch, it will become very easy to do the rest. It's time for you to make the project of the class, which is to create your own template for your bucket design and construct your pocket from scratch. If you need assistance or get stuck with anything, please let me know and I'll be more than happy to help you. Also, you can find in my profile, other letter classes where similar steps such as gluing and painting are also seen combining different techniques that you might find useful. So I invite you to check my profile, and if you're interested in learning more about working, sketching, and other design activities, you can follow me for more counting. Thank you so much for checking this class. I hope you have enjoyed, and I'll see you in the next one.