Corner seam KIT - La Choupette in leather -London Fawn

KIT TO LEARN CORNER SEWING

Make a leather choupette© and learn corner sewing with this "do it yourself" DIY kit.
This kit was designed in partnership with leather craftsman Paul Jouan. He explains the technique of corner sewing based on the making of one of his flagship creations: La Choupette©.

La Choupette© is a small pouch useful for carrying anything and everything (credit card, keys, etc.) .

Prerequisites: to carry out this tutorial and learn corner sewing, you must have a good command of saddle stitch sewing.

The choice of color corresponds to that of the strap and the cardboard of thread.

List of kit items:
- Vegetable tanned leather pieces ready to be assembled (1 body and 2 sides)
- 1 vegetable tanned leather strap (colour of your choice)
- 1 box of 8 m of MeiSi Super Fine waxed linen thread - M40 or M50 (same color as the strap)
- 1 T3 collar button - Aged brass finish
- 2 round tip saddler needles - Size 004
- 1 cork block 8x8 cm

Main piece leather:
- Light brown tinted waterproof vegetable tanned leather (Aztec).
- Thickness: 1.8mm

Strap leather:
- Vegetable tanned leather
- Length 30cm
- Width 13mm
- Thickness: 1.8mm

Dimensions of the Choupette© (closed) :
- Length: 10cm
- Width: 4cm
- Height: 8cm

Materials needed (not included):
- 3 mm round punch
- Water-based contact adhesive
- Finishing eraser for leather (ex.Tokonole)
- Abrasive sponge - 400 grit
- Smooth
- Claws to strike between centers 3.0 mm
- Saddle pliers, round and diamond awl
- tree frog or formoir