Time is of the essence. Large projects abound!

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In the mean­time, I will post this (almost thrown away) gen­uine leather bea­gle key­chain project!

Last month as I surfed the web, I came across a cute leather dog key­chain on ama­zon.

This key­chain on ama­zon did­n’t look com­pli­cat­ed, so I fig­ured I’d give it a try! But instead of cre­at­ing a key­chain using one sol­id leather piece, I decid­ed it’d be neat (and more of a chal­lenge) if I used sev­er­al col­ors and have the key­chain resem­ble my friend’s pet!

I  gath­ered leather pieces and scraps that matched the beagle.

  I quick­ly sketched, traced (like the sus­penders tuto­r­i­al), and cut the pat­tern pieces.

 I had to use my domes­tic sewing machine to  zigzag stitch the pieces togeth­er. It was more dif­fi­cult to sew the pieces togeth­er than I had expect­ed! (I did­n’t use any pins, bast­ing stitch­es or glue!)

Once the pieces were stitched togeth­er, I did­n’t like what I saw! So, I start­ed to cut away at the ears/head/legs/tail! (I planned for it to look a lit­tle home­made with all the piec­ing, but I did­n’t think the ears and head to look so awk­ward.) After hav­ing to redo the head because I had cut away too much leather, I decid­ed to just leave the key­chain alone and let it be.

I did­n’t spend time fin­ish­ing the edges prop­er­ly (b/c by the end I decid­ed I was throw­ing away the project).

To be hon­est, I made a replace­ment gift and (at first) did­n’t give away the key­chain (until later)!

Over­all, I like how the body of the bea­gle turned out, but I’m kin­da creeped out by the ears & head of the keychain!

Well- maybe I’ll attempt a sec­ond leather bea­gle key­chain in the future!