The Making Kind – a leather gift collection for quilters and makers – Volume I-D

From the Practice Log.

A September study – Volume I-D.

We call this collection The Making Kind – five stamps for the people who are always in the middle of making something. Every design begins as a black-and-white die and ends pressed into leather, from journals down to keychains.

First, the luggage tags. We let one thread run the whole length of the tag – out of the spool and straight into the seam of a packed suitcase – above the words THE PROJECT COMES TOO. Anyone who has ever traveled with a maker knows it does.

A black-and-white spool, traveling thread, and suitcase die plate for The Making Kind leather collection.

It runs blind on caramel and on pale sea-blue. The black tag carries the gold.

A caramel leather luggage tag blind-stamped with THE PROJECT COMES TOO from The Making Kind.

A pale sea-blue leather luggage tag blind-stamped with THE PROJECT COMES TOO from The Making Kind.

A black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with THE PROJECT COMES TOO from The Making Kind.

Next, the keychains. Under a crescent moon, a threaded needle pulls a row of running stitches across the sky – ONE MORE ROW, the promise every maker makes at midnight.

A black-and-white moon, needle, and running-stitch die plate for The Making Kind leather collection.

On navy the stitches sink into the night. On the black fob, the moon and every stitch go gold.

A navy blueberry leather keychain blind-stamped with ONE MORE ROW from The Making Kind.

A black leather keychain stamped in gold with the ONE MORE ROW nocturne from The Making Kind.

Then the toiletry bags. We bent a compass around a sewing needle – the north point carries an open eye – ringed by the words THE NEEDLE KNOWS THE WAY. It sits small in the corner of a honeyed russet bag over its dark espresso base, packed for the next retreat weekend.

A black-and-white compass-needle die plate reading THE NEEDLE KNOWS THE WAY for The Making Kind.

Honeyed russet and dark espresso leather toiletry bags blind-stamped with THE NEEDLE KNOWS THE WAY from The Making Kind.

Then the catchall tray, in golden tan. Around the words NOTHING GETS LOST we set a ring of the day's small strays – the bobbin, the button and the rest – because a tray beside the machine is where lost things stop being lost.

A black-and-white sewing-tool ring die plate reading NOTHING GETS LOST for The Making Kind.

An arizona tan leather catchall tray blind-stamped with NOTHING GETS LOST and six sewing tools from The Making Kind.

And finally, the one we liked the most. A nine-patch quilt block, eight squares pressed solid and the ninth left as an open outline with a threaded needle resting across it – ONE TO GO. There is always one to go, and the journal is where it gets planned.

A black-and-white nine-patch and needle die plate reading ONE TO GO for The Making Kind.

Looks absolutely gorgeous when stamped onto the leather – on deep forest green and on pale gray sand.

A forest-green leather journal blind-stamped with the ONE TO GO nine-patch design from The Making Kind.

A gray-sand leather journal blind-stamped with the ONE TO GO nine-patch design from The Making Kind.

We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual. Every image is a render – how we prototype before cutting a die.

If you'd like any of these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.

P.S.

An alternate black leather luggage tag stamped in gold with THE PROJECT COMES TOO from The Making Kind.

An alternate caramel leather luggage tag blind-stamped with THE PROJECT COMES TOO from The Making Kind.

An alternate pale sea-blue leather luggage tag blind-stamped with THE PROJECT COMES TOO from The Making Kind.