{"id":6169,"date":"2015-01-14T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2015-01-14T01:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T09:56:48","slug":"diy-leather-loop-keychain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/diy-leather-loop-keychain\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Leather Loop Keychain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DIYI’ve been meaning to do another leather DIY after how much I loved\u00a0my first encounter<\/a> with the stuff, but even better about this one is that it was boyfriend requested! \u00a0Just a simple and sleek leather keychain to help\u00a0carry around\u00a0keys. \u00a0Happy to do it, sir. \u00a0I was already feeling inspired by these key rings\u00a0from The Everygirl<\/a>, so it was meant to be.<\/p>\n

I actually made three, but the first one was a complete disaster because I was rushing to beat sundown (blogger. problems.) so I’ll share a couple\u00a0morsels of cautionary tips as I go on with the instructions. \u00a0In general though, this is a fairly simple DIY and a great beginner project for anyone wanting to get into leather crafting.<\/p>\n

Materials:<\/strong>
\ntooling leather
\n<\/a>ruler
\nrotary cutter<\/a>
\nX-ACTO knife<\/a>
\nleather awl<\/a>
\nleather punch<\/a> (Kind of. \u00a0I’ll explain this in the steps.)
\nrivet kit<\/a>
\nkey ring<\/p>\n

\"LeatherHere are the rough measurements for the leather piece. \u00a0I used a rotary cutter<\/a> and ruler to cut off a one inch wide strip, then used a pencil to draw out the little trapezoid shaped cut-outs shown above. \u00a0Those smaller pieces were cut with an X-ACTO knife<\/a>, and was probably the most difficult part. \u00a0Getting those corners cut clean takes patience, guys.<\/p>\n

Mistake #1: I didn’t think at all at first about how long I wanted the loop to be so I just left it the length that it was, only to find out later that it was awkwardly long. \u00a0The next time around I measured and cut the loop length to 6″ as marked above, but the actual leather in the photos of all the steps is longer, so just an FYI for anyone that was detailed enough to notice\u00a0that it didn’t look like 6″. \u00a0Anyone?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Folding\"The trapezoid cut-outs are there to make a thinner loop for the key ring to go, which becomes more obvious\u00a0when folding the short end over, then the long end over on top. \u00a0This is how the leather strap will be constructed.<\/p>\n

\"Awl\"So this part is a little weird. \u00a0I already had this leather awl and thought it would be enough to poke a hole big enough for the rivets, but it wasn’t. \u00a0This is where I want to say that it’s best to use a leather punch<\/a> for the holes after first marking where they\u00a0should go, then to punch out a hole in each layer of the leather. \u00a0Buuuuuut if you’re like me and want to avoid getting a leather punch, I improvised by poking the awl through all three layers of leather, then enlarging each hole by sticking\u00a0an X-ACTO knife through in a cross formation. \u00a0It isn’t neat and it’s a bit tricky, but it worked. \u00a0Just need to be careful not to push the knife too far into the hole or else it will cut a slit that’s too big (Mistake #2 from my first time around)<\/i>.<\/p>\n

\"Rivets\"The best part. \u00a0Have you used rivets for anything? \u00a0They’re amazing, and this rivet kit<\/a> is spectacular. \u00a0After slipping the key ring through and pushing the rivet backing through the holes, I hammered the rivet shut.<\/p>\n

Mistake #3: Maybe it was the adrenaline from rushing, but for the first keychain I made, I bashed the life out of the rivet. \u00a0This somehow\u00a0misaligned the top and bottom\u00a0and it shut diagonally and off-center, which wasn’t cute at all. \u00a0Bashing is completely unnecessary. \u00a0Light taps with the hammer are sufficient, and you can go progressively harder if needed, but not too hard. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\"backHere’s the back side of the keychain. \u00a0SO satisfying to see how good the rivet shut. \u00a0I sincerely hope you’ll soon know what that joy feels like if you don’t already.<\/p>\n

\"DIY<\/p>\n

\"Leather<\/p>\n

\"BlackOne for him.<\/p>\n

\"NaturalOne for me!<\/p>\n

\"DIYI’ve totally been in this kind of color mood lately, namely no color. \u00a0Is it the winter? \u00a0Neutrals are a favorite forever, but just even more so lately. \u00a0Also, I guess tooling leather only comes in so many colors, ha! \u00a0Boyfriend initially requested brown, but I couldn’t even find that. \u00a0Poor him. \u00a0Which of these two colors do you prefer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to do another leather DIY after how much I loved\u00a0my first encounter with the stuff, but even better about this one is that it was boyfriend requested! \u00a0Just a simple and sleek leather keychain to help\u00a0carry around\u00a0keys. \u00a0Happy to do it, sir. \u00a0I was already feeling inspired by these key rings\u00a0from The … Continue reading “DIY Leather Loop Keychain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[336,208,183,337],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-keychain","tag-leather","tag-organize","tag-rivet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6230,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions\/6230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}