Burrapeg
Been here a while
- Location
- Puget Sound
Well, learning to use my new Big Shot has proved expensive. Both new $10. throw bags are hopelessly hung up high in my own trees, in skinny spindly areas I can't climb to. So it started me thinking about replacing them on the cheap. The answer hit me this morning when I went to our local recycle. Two things: someone had set out a half-empty bag of lead bird shot and I had gathered up a couple pairs of old leather work gloves out of my shop, to toss out. Good grief! I have big hands and the gloves were extra large; and despite the wear and tear and holes in them, the middle fingers and also the thumbs were usually in good shape! Duh! Perfect throw bags! I had some 1-inch rings I had bought at a farm supply for some reason a few months ago. And I have one of those Speedy Stitch thingies. In barely an hour (rainy day today anyway) I had made up half a dozen leather throw bags! If I can sort out how to upload a photo, I can show what I did. But it is really a no-brainer. I just cut out the good fingers and cut further up into the palm area a bit too, so as to have a double flap to fold over around the metal ring. Then ten or twelve quick stitches with the Speedy Stitch gadget and some super glue flooded onto the knot and stitches. The rings were just right for stopping at the small ring on a cambium saver, and inexpensive, just $6.95 or so for a ten pack of them, so not much invested at all! - Stew
