Just popping in to let y'all know what I've been up to recently. I'm still working, intermittently, on my Crazy Quilt block but I've also taken up leatherworking and metalsmithing recently.

I've embellished my fiber pieces with beads, baubles, random bits of metal I've found here and there, but something was always missing. Truth is I love the look of tooled leather but wanted to use my own designs, ditto that on hand-hammered copper and silver.

So I took the plunge and have been teaching myself how to produce the leather, copper, and silver embellishments I want for my fiber pieces. It helps that I inherited my dad's leatherworking tools and some of his smithing tools.

What new skills would you like to learn but haven't taken the plunge yet? Leave a comment below!