How to turn jar into a mug.


I have been doing some super basic leather-working for few months, and
I have to say I enjoy it a lot. The leather I buy from
http://www.wendelleather.com/ for about 25E per m^2, and the tools and
needles from amazon.

BTW, if you want to start leather-working just buy a chisel set
(https://amzn.com/B014549SNG), needles and thread
(https://amzn.com/B07BKTSP9K) and leather scraps
(https://amzn.com/B01N9VIDJ2) and you are good to go.
The whole thing will cost you like 50E or so.

Before you start make sure you know how to stitch:
https://youtu.be/qi3BRWO7kuo (5 minutes)


Today I took an old jar from peppers and made a nice leather wrap
around it to be used as a coffee mug

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U7mHdjtZeskCULlaB9niYb5OI2BVWOpF-A

the jar looked like this:

              |----------------|
               ]              [
              |                |  -|
              |                |   |
              |                |   |
              |                |   | about 5cm
              |                |   |
              |                |   |
              |----------------|  _|

              |----------------|
                 about 6cm



I cut a piece of leather
                                     _
                              |---| |
                              |AAA| |
                              |   | |
                              |   | |
                              |   | |
|-----------------------------|   | |
| Y                      X        | |  don't remember
| Y                      X        | |  about 15cm or so
| Y                      X        | |  but enough so it can be
| Y                      X     BBB| |  looped AAA to BBB
|---------------------------------+ |_

                         |--------|
                          about 4cm
|---------------------------------|
    enough to loop the jar (pi*d) + 4cm
    in my case was about 19cm

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T6pI1lnLBBkptd2qczfAJ4H8JiPPoFsVCg
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u-8HIeShOnCqT78lu8BFbyusOBC7XUldYA

Use the chisel to punch holes on the X and Y(distance from X to Y
should loop the jar)

I made the holder loop from inside out so X is under Y, and then I
looped the handle from AAA to BBB and punched holes and stitched it.


End result:

              |----------------|  ,-.
               ]_____________ [  /   \
             ||           |X   |||   |
             ||           |X   |||   |
             ||           |X   |||   /
             ||           |X   |||  /
             ||           |X   ||| /
             ||           |X   |||/
             ||-----------|X---|AB

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15ScPCCDI1nnk2wMP_hKWSmYaDMEY6SKI
(have to say I made the ASCII art by hand, and turned out pretty good)

Keep in mind some ceramic jars have lead in them, so be carefull not
to poison yourself. Check out https://bit.ly/29bK7Aa for some tips,
but in general I would avoid cermaic jars and just use glass jars.
Crystal is also lead - lead glass.

I love making things with my hands, but I love even more using them,
have to say the first coffee I poured in the mug made the leather hot
and it smelled a bit leathery: best coffee ever.


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