I learned to work with leather, sewing it with an industrial sewing machine about 20 years ago. How I learned and where I learned is a story of its own. Let me know if you want to hear that story.
In my last post I promised to tell you about the leather alterations I did last summer.
I was walking out of my bank when I stopped to admire a custom-made leather motorcycle seat on a Harley. Next thing I know its owner was standing next to me. We exchanged business cards. Months later he came to me with a worn, or should I say aged, leather jacket that was now too short in the torso and too short in the arms. My customer know exactly what he wanted me to do, almost step-by-step.
I inserted extra leather in each sleeve between the elbow area and the wrist area.
I also inserted extra leather at the bottom from the bottom of the zipper all the way around so that it would actually meet him at his waistline.
Since he had worked in leather for years, seats and saddle bags, etc. he had the exact same trim that was elsewhere on the jacket. So I covered all of my seams with this trim, making the finished jacket look like an intentional design from its orginal designer so many years ago. This jacket was also covered with commemorative patches from MIA friends and places he had visited over all the years of riding.
He was so happy with the finished jacket that he then had me alter leather pants to fit correctly – tight.
This was last summer’s leather alterations story.
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