I’ve begun another deer hide, and I wanted to show you how it turned out so far. I’m happy with what I’m learning, and, after cleaning four other hides, can see a significant difference in my fleshing skills.
Will nicked this one in places while skinning it, but most of the nicks were near the edge, and won’t [...]
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Another Deer Hide – the Fleshing Process
Posted in Hide Tanning and Leather Working, Home Schooling/Unschooling, My Life and Family, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged deer hide, deerskin, hide tanning, leather, tanning on December 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My Plans for the Attic in Our New Home
Posted in Hide Tanning and Leather Working, Home Improvements, Inspirations for Life and Projects, My Life and Family, Sewing and Needlework, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged attic, hide tanning, hides, kit homes, loom, old hous, playroom, rainy day, spinning, spinning wheel, Wardway Homes, Wardway's, weaving, work room, workroom on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is difficult to get good pictures up here, because there is very little to stand on, save the stairs. I’d rather not risk making another hole in the ceiling. Not that the ceiling is so much, but you can’t predict very well what you’ll land on below.
Still, I’d like to put a work room up [...]
Jem and the Bullhide
Posted in Hide Tanning and Leather Working, Ministries - Spreading spiritual wealth, My Life and Family, Paranormal, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged Paranormal, butcher, Jem, tanning, hide tanning, telepathy, butchering, bull hide, cleaning hides, scraping hides, slaughtering, slaughter, bull, spiritual attack on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When my sister came to visit in May, we slaughtered a big bull for her to take back home for her family. (Don’t worry, this bull deserved to go – he had escaped being branded twice, mashing up two gates and one fence in the process, and nearly injuring two people. It was his time [...]
Tyger’s Misconception – “It’s alright, K-10.”
Posted in Hide Tanning and Leather Working, Home Schooling/Unschooling, My Life and Family, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged deer, dog, German Shepherd, hide, hide tanning, K-10, tanning, tanning hides, working together on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While I was working on the first deer hide initially, sitting downstairs taking the hair out, Tyger came to join me.
She stood a moment, staring intently at the hide, then said, “I do help?”
“Yes,” I told her, and showed her how to pull the loose hair.
She worked happily at this a few moments, then patted [...]
Tanning My Second Deer Hide, Part 1
Posted in Hide Tanning and Leather Working, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged coyotes, December, deer, deer hunting, doe, dogs, hide, skinning, tanning, tanning hides, whitetail deer on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, Will got his deer on December 4th. It was a good, clean hunt, and he brought home a huge whitetail doe.
He gutted her, then, because I was too tired to deal with the hide that night, he hung her up out of reach of neighborhood dogs and coyotes (we had one come in the [...]
Tanning a Deer Hide – my first try
Posted in Hide Tanning and Leather Working, Home Schooling/Unschooling, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged abundance, brain tan, brain tanning, brains, deer hide, hide, hide tanning, Home Schooling/Unschooling, self-sufficiency, slake lime, working together on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I got my first deer hide to tan from our neighbor, whose deer Billy “helped” with.
The hide had several bullet holes and nicks in it, but otherwise was in excellent shape, with beautiful hair.
I was hoping to keep the hair on it, for a special project (moccasin-type boots). However, after I had soaked it for some [...]
A Science Lesson – Extracting Brains from a Deer
Posted in Hide Tanning and Leather Working, Home Schooling/Unschooling, My Life and Family, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged working together, self-sufficiency, deer, butcher, knife, home schooling, homeschooling, science, tanning, hide tanning, unschooling, whitetail deer, brain tanning, brains, creation, nature, science experiment, skull, hack saw, sledge hammer, tools, hatchet, saw, eyeball, traditional skills on December 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The other night my children and I had a science lesson…anatomy, really. I needed brains for my tanning project, and had read all about how to get a deer’s brains out of its skull.
Notice: If you are an avid animal lover, or are just plain squeamish, I recommend that you skip this post.
The process sounded simple. Use [...]
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**My newest projects...learning copywriting skills; piecing a reversable quilt for my daughter; braintanning a deer hide. **Two historical figures I respect…Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. **An unusual skill I possess…making cheese from goat milk. I make several kinds (which require no special inoculations), and have several more I would like to try. **My favorite person…my husband. Incidentally, I assumed since Junior High that I would marry a bareback bronc rider, and have three sons with him. Instead, I got snagged by a construction foreman, and have one son, one daughter, and four other children who beat me to God’s side. **I graduated from the Long Ridge Writers Group correspondence course, “Breaking Into Print,” and look forward to their novel course...just for fun. **A recent great book I read - Kristin Lavransdatter II - The Mistress of Husaby (centers on a Norwegian family in the 1300's).January 2010 S M T W T F S « Dec 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Tyger’s Quilt – Remaining Steps
1) Embroider where desired on pictures 2) Embroider with fancy stitching around patches (look up stitches in blue sewing book) 3) Embroider with fancy stitching at some of denim seams 4) Put together front and back, with yellow sheet center 5) Tie off prettily with full strands of embroidery floss
