I'm fully aware of how the system works, thank you very much for explaining at me. I'm saying the ruling itself is arse backwards and jumps to a lot of baseless and genuinely misogynistic conclusions. It is difficult to read it as an objective clarification on anything, let alone a positive one.
In which case the ruling, even if one was to accept it as a valid interpretation, let alone its effect on people involved, is arse backwards and has the potential to cause significant harm in the short term.
Decades of gender = sex in legal wording, documents and policy makes it very difficult to detangle the intent of what is meant by sex or gender in each case.
This particularly undermimes obtaining a GRC which updates the specifically labelled 'Sex' field on a birth certificate. So now we can have people with legal documents stating their 'Sex' being barred from same sex spaces aligning with their documentation.
I love looking after my sister's dog, a big dumb lurcher, shes easy so far as dogs go, very lazy and not motivated by walks but 2 weeks was enough to verify I don't want to own one. My two feline girls suit me just right.
I also in the same position when it comes to magic but I love making little rituals in every day life, to the point where the simple act of lighting a particular scented candle can elicit a response before I do anything. Just stuff like lighting a candle and having some time to relax and make some nice tea, the blend or type of tea might not have any direct effect on my mood but having reinforced my brain that particular ones are for relaxing or ones for when I'm stressed out, it makes it kind of possible to have the effects i want by blending them like a little potion!
I bought a multipack of nice oil blends I use to make a sugar scrub.
- 300ml granulated white sugar
- 150ml coconut oil
- 20 drops of oil
Cats every day. I love dogs but specifically I love other people's dogs that I'm not responsible for
I think you are thinking of network rail who owns the infrastructure. GBR came about in 2021 when none of the operating companies were getting any money and so the government basically ran it for them. Basically it is de-facto back in public hands and GBR will take over once each operating company's contract is up (I think SWR is first). At least that is my understanding of it.
Also the rolling stock wasnt typically owned by the operating companies, they would lease them from the ones who did like Angel trains and Porterbrook.
Isn't that what GBR is already set up for in regards to rail?
Here's the thing...
Updated cuff/bracelet - now with 100% more splicing!
So this was the product of a mistake. I had already taken my previous project (https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/24039237), measured it and replicated it in LibreCAD for a reproducible pattern and this was my attempt to use that pattern. Problem is that the full length of the strap is longer than a piece of A4 paper so the pattern was split over two pages. Plan was to scratch each half onto my leather and cut it out in one go.
However I got a bit too enthusiastic and accidentally traced and cut the entire thicker section of it out... So rather than abandon it I made the best of the situation and found a contrasting but similar thickness leather and tried my first join! A bit of glue, some accurate stitching chisel placement and they were attached! I was genuinely shocked as to how well it worked, I thought much more material would be needed for tha
I think that, having never really used craft knives much, I never thought about the costs or longevity. I've had a few of those little sets that come with one blade each of a load of shapes but not really any that came with a pack of replaceable ones. The knife I've got came with 5 blades, I never even realised how cheap 100 extra blades even was...
How are you stropping those blades out of interest? I never even thought of doing that for a disposable blade.
How often do you replace your blades?
For most of my detailed cutting I've been using generic #11 craft knife blades and it seems the "wear curve" on them is rather aggressive to start with then kind of goes flat.
Like, a new blade goes through leather like butter but that lasts for maybe 4-5 decently sized cuts before it starts needing multiple swipes and then at some point it almost feels like the leather is bumpy or grainy where the blade isn't cutting through denser sections.
I don't want to be too wasteful nor do I want to be forever changing blades - how long do you tend to go between changes?
A different bracelet/cuff and bonus keyring
I had a lot of fun with this one, just made it on the fly. Was originally planning to just make a relatively simple one that I could use to try lining an item but it seemed a waste as the suede side was so soft. Ended up creating this, its a really simple shape and not too difficult to make. Once I start doing some skiving to reduce the thickness where the retaining bands attach and some other embellishments I think this could look really good. I want to make this exact one again but this time in a much darker leather and with a really heavily contrasting thread.
I also made this keyring the other day, lets just say it was a learning exercise... The rivet was my first one and it went wonky, cutting a tiny slot with a knife through two layers was not a fun thing and I made a bit of a pigs ear of the stitching placement. I did however enjoy making
Thor Hammers
British and family owned producer of rawhide and other non-marring and sparking hammers. I've got a bunch of their stuff that I like to use for leatherworking - a big heavy rawhide hammer and a couple of lighter replaceable-face mallets.
Really good quality, very reasonably priced and quick shipment. Never had an issue with any of their products.
I don't really have an ongoing single project but I do have an ongoing "project" to learn leathercrafting, hopefully one day to be able to have a little sidehustle in making some relatively niche and bespoke things. I've been taking things slow for once rather than rushing headlong into it, not buying too much stuff and getting overwhelmed, practicing things over and over and I'm really loving it.
I've been posting my journey so far in the Leather Craft community with pictures and stories of all the stuff I've made so far.
My latest items that I made just yesterday, a cuff and a small clutch to use the new hardware closures I bought.
Cuff, clutch and a load of new toys!
I had a lot of fun today. I had the day off so went down to the leather shop where my crafting journey began and bought a bunch of new tools, supplies and more leather offcuts to have more fun. I ended up getting around 8kg of leather, some black Tokonole, Sam Brown studs and punches, double cap rivets and setter, water based glue and some wing dividers.
When I got back I made this little wrist cuff thing, its rather comfortable, really just made it to see what an adjustable item using the stud could look like to have a go at using it.
I also made a little clutch I had been wanting to make for a while, it was actually one of the first patterns I downloaded, printed and stuck to card but I just didn't have
By chance I went down to visit them today, I had a day off I had forgotten about that I had to use before the end of March. I brought my stuff with me to ask and they were really pleased to see what I had been doing and even took some pictures for their website!
I was right in what the leather was, it is indeed Badalassi Pueblo, its really nice, I got to see some much bigger cuts of it and I'm keen to make some more from that at some point.
Awl holder
In my ongoing obsession to make little leather holders and pouches for the tools I need to make other holders and pouches in a weird cycle, I decided a nice and quick little project was to replace the little plastic holder for my awl with a leather one.
So I quickly sketched it, measured it and drafted it then made it. I think it came out ok, I really, really don't like this leather though, I don't know exactly what it is but its the only one I've got that's really thin enough and its got this weird stretchy texture where the top layer seems to move around when cutting and it burnishes really weirdly and not very nicely. It also gets all kinds of weird stretch marks and things around the stitches, I'm interested to find out what it actually is.
Needle pouch
Just came back from a week away for work which has torn me away from my learning. Getting back into the flow of things with a simple little project and free pattern from J. H. Leather which is a little pouch for holding needles.
I made a few mistakes on this, had to unpick some thread and the pattern seemingly was designed for stitching chisels of a different pitch so I've got some uneveness (yes I probably could have accounted for it but I just kind of went in head first on it). I'm not overly keen on the pattern itself so I'd like to draft my own at some point instead to make it more how I prefer.
I do feel I'm coming to a point where I need some new tools to play with, an edge beveller and some simple hardware setting tools (and hardware) in particular.
Other than miles most of our stuff is metric anyway, at least legally. Like yeah, we use stones and feet for 'human' measurements in speech etc but if you go to the doctors it would be in kilos and metres. There are a few oddities like milk bottles being in pints and beer in pubs but even then you find things like plant milks and bottles/canned beer in litres. The one that really makes no sense is car fuel efficiency. We sell fuel by the litre but measure it in miles per (imperial) gallon - so it doesnt even tie up with American figures.
I'm going back to the place I got it from soon so I plan to bring some of the things I've made or scrap examples to find out what leather it actually is. There are a few that are really nice.
I wish I knew, its from 2kg of scraps and offcuts I grabbed from random boxes. It might be Badalassi Carlo Pueblo.
Rapidly drafted and fabricated thread snipper holder
This one isn't even slightly complicated but I was able to knock the entire thing out in about 2.5 hours from the start of taking measurements to it being finished.
I needed something to hold or at least cover the ends of my thread snippers so I just quickly took some measurements, made a very simple pattern in LibreCAD, printed it, glued it to cardboard and cut out and constructed the thing. From the first leather cut to it being completed it took about 90 minutes. Its nice being significant more confident in each step and having saddle stitching down now meaning this kind of project was completed with basically no drama or significant effort.
Well, I say no drama. My cheap Aliexpress diamond stitching chisels have some bent prongs, which is no loss, I knew they would only be of limited use and just wanted to see if I should invest in some dec
Shork!
This was quite a fun one. Lots of curvy lines to cut out freehand, used a hole punch rather than chisels and had some rather difficult sewing to close it up. Fun and cute though!
Pattern I downloaded (with video) is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YAPf-X10ZI
Thanks :), its probably a bit hard to see but its really just some mildly wobbly edges and its slightly asymmetrical where one stitch line is a bit "tighter" than the other in both how close it fits and how close I cut to the line.
Wet moulded knife pouch
So this is today's creation. I kind of just wanted to try out wet moulding and my knife was a kind of simple enough flat shape to try it. It actually didn't go too badly, sure I could have done with better (and gentler) clips and a thicker, or at least less stretchy, leather but I think it worked.
The other thing that was new to me here is that I just freehanded the whole thing. I took some rough pencil marks and some rough measurements to start with but, having no idea how wide the front panel needed to be I just kind of glued it, cut it, stitched it, cut it some more, sanded and burnished it, all just freehand because I couldnt really get a ruler in there to cut against.
So yeah, rough as hell, misshapen in places and covered in marks and little mistakes but I kind of love it for that.
Heavy duty tool pouch
Today I made a tool pouch thing out of really thick leather, far thicker than anything I've worked with so far (about 4mm). It was originally intended to hold my stitching chisels and was going to have two lines of vertical stitching to create 3 pockets but I really didn't take into account just how thick this stuff was and I didn't have nearly the right tolerances for it so I just didn't make the pockets.
This thing was tough. I had real issues in getting my chisels out after making the holes (especially on the triple thick section - even with just a 2-prong) and this has been the first project to draw blood - one of the first sets of holes I made with my 10-prong and as it released it flew back and scratched my hand.
Simple little pen holder
My 6th project. This one I self drafted rather than using an online pattern (although I did use a few to get an idea) and was really just meant to be a very simple one to practice stitching and get a nice super burnished edge. The flap is a tad wide but the leather is really stretchy so the band quickly accomodated it.
5th project - gusseted card/coin holder
This is my next one, used a pattern for a coin or (yet another) card holder which was significantly more complicated than any I've done so far. All my previous projects have been very much flat - cut out pieces, glue them flat, sew them together.
This one featured two really tiny gussets and no instructions for how to put any of this together, so I tried my best to put things together in an order that made sense and, whilst it took quite a while, it went together ok.
I made a few mistakes as usual, the nearly completed item was a real pain to complete the stitching on and I made a mistake in not realising i would need to be stitching to be continuous over the top of the gusset so ended up with 3 separate s
My first projects and the start of my journey
Hi, I'm new to this community and its sad that it appears to be a little quiet to say the least. Still, maybe if I post some stuff it might get some people interested again.
So I only very recently started leathercrafting. It has been a desire of mine for a little while but I really got the bug a couple of months ago and waited to go on a cheap course to see if I liked it before I started spending money on tools and supplies. And since I did it last Friday (7th of March) I've been having a lot of fun.
So here are the things I've made so far, I'm very much still learning and I know a lot of this is very rough still but I'm definitely improving already!
Card holder 1
Made in the workshop I did last Friday, I don't mind how this came out, but my stitching is really rough (I didn't really have a consistent method yet and kept putting the thread over or under in random orders.