With Christmas around the corner, you may want to make a few quick gifts for the young kids in your family:
A small coin pocket that hangs from a lace around the neck.
Their shape is not very crucial, so you can just draw up your own pattern from looking at these pictures. Even the construction of these are not complicated, so just study the pictures and let me know if you have a question.
Tom Evans of Boarshead came up with this idea and I will probably mostly do basketweave backgrounding like this!
This is a piece of leather stamped with the basket weave background and Block-out resist painted on every second line of stamping
After applying Dark Brown Antique Gel
This one was done by Tim: On this piece only the 'tops' of the weave was coated with Block-out. You can still see some spots that have not dried completely.
Medium brown Hi-Lite Stain (Tandy Item #2608-03) made this design come alive.
Here is another one I tried - this time with Super Sheen and a mix of Briar Brown and Raisin Mahogany Eco-Flo Hi-Lite Stain.
This video shows the technique in action:
A newer video about using this technique:
In 2017 I did a Live Video Stream showing the same - it's a bit long because it was live, but could still be usefull!
