The only two things I've found to worry about with leather are:
A) The thickness of the leather, & making sure that your sewing machine can
handle it--for the browncoat, I used suede that was nearly 1/8 thick, and
though my machine actually was capable of handling 5 layers of it, it caused
all sorts of problems. (But it was the only suede I could find in the right
color, darn it!) You just can't finish thick suede as nicely as you can
finish garment-weight (~1.5oz-3oz) suede, and you'll find yourself calling
the ruttin' coat a piece of gos se often, dong le mah?
B) Getting the seam right the first time. Any hole you make in the leather
won't close back up again the way fabric would, so ty to aviod ripping out
and re-sewing seams--it'll be obvious, and it will weaken the leather.
Also, though a lot of people seem to like to use upholstery thread with
leather, I didn't like the result at all; I used glazed cotton hand quilting
thread, and it worked very well.
-E House
(It's more useful than Klingon, right?)
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