Quote Originally Posted by mcnice
he looks soooooooooooooo great!!!!!!!
really fascinating at how good u handled...
was it all hand stitched?

ur kitchen could have been taken from an austrian house, looks similar to us ;)
so nexttime i ve to add to my kitchen a piece of leather and needles to follow u.

great job and tell us about your difficulties!
First things first it was my mates kitchen. Mine is similar though

Secondly. The lid, and stiffeners are all hand sewn
and the rosette button and the antler pieces are all hand cut and polished.

The difficulties I had were not having worked with leather before and a Knowledge of sewing at shirt button level. So it's been all uphill.

Having said that. We also found mistakes and made some alterations to the patern from the Thompson book.If you're going to try it, practice before hand we used Cornflakes packets and binliners to make a mock up first.That helped and highlighted some things we hadn't thought of.