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endyuzo:
Which ID did you use

My gmail account ID

Rubyventures:
Have you got the link please? I love sewing and I have a passion for crafts, I will really love to get into this leather thing. You can't have too many hobbies.

Follow my videos and you will be able to pick the basics.

.Cow skin eaten in Jamaica, mostly by men. Cow's skin is high in gelatine, a protein from collagen,which is high in non-essential amino acids (those which the body can make) and very low in essential amino acids (those which must be provided by the diet). Gelatine from cow's skin and bones is widely used in the commercial food industry and in other industries such as the pharmaceutical industry, to make, for example, the outer shells for capsules.

It is best to buy cow's skin from certified butchers because Ensuring that this food is free from parasites, properly cleaned and approved by public health inspections. There is also the fear of chemical contamination caused from substances used on the cow's skin for veterinary purposes.

I recently found a new hobby which I am very passionate about. Hand stitching of leather.
In Nigeria this cow hide is a delicacy.

It is often said that cow skin has no nutritional value. ... But the protein in cow skin is considered to be of low quality.... Generally speaking, foods with high quality protein or of high biological value are foods that contain all the essential amino acids the body needs daily to function.

Rubyventures:
Where can I get recycled leather?

You can get it from an old leather sofa, or you can get factory scraps. On Amazon or eBay

The good thing about leather crafting is that you can start with just one tool and used recycled materials, the profit margins are more than 50%.

The leather I used in the video is scrap. It was taken from an old sofa.

I will be teaching you how to sew the main bag by simple hand stitching.

Learn the techniques of sewing and making your own leather bag handles.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKCm12VXEww

As a child I used to think that women went to the hospital and got babies given to them by the nurses. I thought that pregnant women had too much food to eat hence the big tummy.

All the money collected should not be given to the parents but used to set up a trust or foundation to help kids in the same predicament as success.

Because of women like this , some men loose their best buddies when they get married. I don't find this funny. What if he had a serious reaction to the pepper? Some women are selfish.

What is even more disrespectful is the displaying of their bodies on social media. Nigeria is not a country worth dying for.

Sometimes I burn off the loose thread, this has to be done with great care.

uuzba:
This one and traditional marriage go hand in hand. Oyibos don't go to any village. Family meet each other, greet and allow their children marry in church.
But Nigerian will tell you, "you have not met me until you leave the city, come to my village, carry palmwine and calabash front and back, kill 12 cows and throw colanut front and back. Then you can go and marry".
Are these not fetish practices as well? Whom are we deciving?

Well said. A glass of wine with your name on it is waiting for you

Factfinder1:
So is this a way of telling us to patronise fetish things

So because its not foreign or sold by a white man then its fetish ?

A lot of thought went into this gift so the Op should not knock it.

futurist369:
spaghetti dear

This is a very quick pasta dish.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2EfsSWJ-4g

Once finished, use small scissors or a utility knife to cut the remaining threads as close to the leather as possible.

Many leatherworkers use a special tool called a stitching groover to gouge a shallow trough along the line of holes and, when finished sewing, use a hammer to tap the stitches down into the trough. This tucks them out of harm’s way and makes them last longer.

With a little practice, hand sewing becomes a fast, easy, and fun way to make anything from a wallet to a saddle. Give it a try and discover a whole new world of leatherworking!

Take the needle that will be on the back of your work and pass it back through the next hole. We will stitch toward ourselves. Pull two inches of thread through the hole. Take the front needle and push the tip just through the hole in front of the thread that’s coming through. We always place the front needle in front of the thread from the back needle.

Before you pull the front needle through the hole, we need to make sure it didn’t pierce the back thread. If that happens, the stitch will have to be cut and you start over (or learn the advanced skill of dealing with a pierced thread). We can avoid this by pulling the back thread back through the hole as we push the front needle into the hole. When the front needle is almost all the way through we can stop pulling the back thread. Then we take a needle in each hand and pull evenly until the stitch tightens. Note that the needles alternate front to back on each stitch.

The needles will be harder to get through the holes that already have thread in them. I generally end up using needlenose pliers to pull the needle through. Be careful doing this since it may weaken or break the needle. You can avoid this by carefully pulling straight through and not putting any side force on the needle. Breaking off a needle can be dealt with if there’s enough line to thread a new needle and keep going. Otherwise you’ll have to backstitch as much as you can with the other needle and hope it holds.

Hold the fork along the marked line and use a soft-headed hammer to punch it through the leather. Drive the fork all the way through the two pieces being punched. Pull the fork out, set the first prong in the last hole and punch the next section (see figure above). Continue until holes are punched along the length to be sewn.

You can also hold the leather in a stitching horse, between your knees, in a soft-jawed vise, or in any manner that will leave your hands free because two needles require two hands.

Pass one of the needles through the hole where you want to start and pull it until the workpiece is in the middle of the thread.

Now let’s prepare the leather. We need to score a line that is the same distance from the edge of the leather as the thickness of the two pieces of leather being sewn. There are fancy tools for doing this, but you can use scissors as a makeshift compass cutter to accomplish the same thing as shown in the figure above.

The distance between the holes varies with the intended use, thickness of thread, and weight of leather. If you’re using an awl, an overstitch wheel is the best way to mark the locations. While using an awl is old school cool, chisel forks have become much more popular. Place the two pieces of leather together in the position you want to sew them. Set them on a smooth work surface padded with some thick scrap leather that you don’t mind damaging

Stitching needles are heavier, longer, duller, and have a larger eye than regular sewing needles. As opposed to sewing cloth, the needle is not intended to create its own hole. A hole is punched through the leather by an awl or chisel, then the needle is pushed through. We’ll use two needles, one on each end of waxed thread. This thread is much heavier and stronger than cloth thread and is typically made from multiple cords of strong linen or synthetic material. A small lump of beeswax will help bind the thread

Cut some thread to the length of your arm span. For big projects, double that. Pass the end of the thread through the eye of the needle, then pierce the tip through the thread about 3″ from the end. Personally, I always pierce the thread twice.

Slide the thread down the needle until it passes the eye, then draw it tight. Rub the beeswax along the splice and roll it tight between your fingers. Perform the same operations on the other end of the thread with the second needle.

Though its history dates back to the dawn of civilization, leatherworking remains an enjoyable and useful skill even in the age of 3D printers. And while you can spend a lifetime learning the deeper intricacies of leather, the basics are easy enough for anyone to pick up.
Among the most useful of these skills is the ability to sew pieces of leather together. The process is similar to sewing cloth, but has some significant differences.

In this skill builder, we’ll learn how to hand sew leather using the saddle stitch.

Hand sewing leather may seem daunting, but it’s inexpensive, very strong, and less work than you might imagine. The saddle stitch is actually more durable than a machine stitch. When a machine stitch breaks, the entire piece will quickly unravel. When a saddle stitch breaks, the threads bind each other in place.

What thread do you use for leather?

Bonded nylon is a strong thread, and the bonding process it undergoes adds strength and reduces friction, making sewing smoother and faster on an industrial sewing machine. It is perfect for hand sewing leather because the bonding agent (a type of resin) helps dissipate friction during the sewing process. You can also pass it through your bees wax to make it more smooth.

Mariangeles:
What would he eat the plain rice or yam with ??

It's better he starts with one pot meals like concoction rice, asaro, porridge beans...

You don't have to take every statement literally, the op said he wants to learn how to cook, not that he hasn't got any food to eat.

Start from the simplest food, master it and move on to the next. e.g boiling rice, yam , plantain then move on to making stew and soups etc.

In Nigeria, leather crafting is a very easy craft to adopt as a source of livelihood. it is a business that does not require a very large capital outlay. There is also this general belief that it is a trade meant for the Northerners. Anybody can take up leathercrafting.

Even students can use it to earn money by the side, by making hand bags, purses wallets etc. the tools are very easy to carry around, for basic leather crafting all you need is your needle and thread.

WOLEMENTO:
pls bro me have gotten the pin i dont knw the next step after the pin

Log into your AdSense account and enter it . I think its either in verification / monetisation

Abjay97:
After qualifying for google adsense, and making up to $10 I was told to provide my IDs for idenfication which I did thrice but failed..
They said the name does not match but it does!

This is the message on my adsense account page

"Your ad units aren't displaying ads because you've failed identity verification. To verify your identity and resume ad serving, please contact us"

Now, ads are no longer visible in my site.
What do I do next?
How do I contact them


Webmasters in the house please help out..

So instead of contacting them you are contacting nairaland?

Me too I am in the process of verifying my AdSense account. I am just waiting for the pin to be posted to me.

Goodluck

In my next video which is coming up in the next couple of days, I will be teaching you how to make the popular tote bag. I have attached a few pictures.

Watching for my next video of learning how to hand stitch a leather hand bag.

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