Many housewives in the closet, you can find such seemingly useless leather items: single gloves, a pair of which are long lost tabs on shoes, belts and other accessories.
It is not necessary to throw them away: these pieces will be useful for the production of original souvenirs and gifts. Designers talk about how you can make the remnants of the skin 5 useful things.
Gloves and purse
The case will go leather pieces, a cut from an old glove.
For them, will find the following applications:
- Stylish youth gloves made of leather and other material. To make them You need to rip the leather glove and fingers cut off. Formed from pieces cut out half gloves. The other parts are cut from the fabric. Gloves are sewn and decorated with a small strap, made of cut fingers. You can also sew leather pieces to knit gloves, it will make them much stronger and warmer.
- Decorative purse-pouch. It is made from the fingers cut from leather gloves. To do this, they rip and cut rounding. At the top of each strip make small slits for the strap. Cut out the bottom of the pouch of the thumb or of the dense fabric. All items are sewn, inserting lace. If the pouch to decorate with embroidery or stamping, you get a great souvenir.
Buttons, appliques and belt
Small leather trim is used for the manufacture of fancy decorative items. They are as follows:
- Double buttons. Take ready and smooth buttons cut out for them leather circles slightly larger diameter. At the edge of each circle weed out strong thread. Before you put a button in the middle of the circle, moisten the skin with cold water, so she lay down nice and neatly. The thread is tightened. The skin will shrink and smooth obtyanet button. From the dense skin can also be made-buttons kegs. For this purpose from it cut wedge-shaped pieces with rounded widest part. The backsheet smeared adhesive and rolled into a tube, since the wide edge.
- Appliques to decorate clothing. From scraps of soft leather can be cut out elements of applications for jewelry sweater or cardigan. This may be, for example, a twig with leaves. When sewing on knitwear to the skin is not stretched, the substrate is applied a thin piece of fabric, and on top of it applique. Everything is sewn with a straight stitch. Excess skin is cut together with the lining. Leaf stalks and twigs embroidered matching colored thread.
- If there is a lot of the same scraps, you can make belt or bag assembly method. To do this, cut out parts of the same type and collect them without stitching and gluing, simply by inserting into each other. Thus it is possible to collect a single or double belt or handbag openwork. In the second case the construction is mounted to the horizontal straps, the ends of which are sewn or glued together.
Skin - this is an excellent ornamental material.
Even from small pieces of it can be made original brooches, bracelets, hair clips and more.
These things can be bought in the store, but much more interesting would be to make their own hands.
