I marked out where I needed to make holes so it will be easier to sew the two pieces together with a pattern wheel and proceeded to make the holes with an awl which was painfully time consuming only to be stuck with how to transfer the holes identically onto the other piece. I thought I would try by laying one on top of the other and once again spending ages with the awl.
Sewing turned out to be more difficult than I had imagined especially after taking all the time to make holes but because the leather was flexible it made it increasingly difficult to get through both of the holes so one side was perfect but the other was more messy as shown but I don't have enough leather or time to make another one so I think I can make it work.
Here it is sewn together and partially sanded. I will probably sand it a bit more to make it slightly thinner so the seam doesn't open. Sewing leather the way I did was incredibly time consuming and finger numbing, punching the holes first would probably have been more effective but I was worried that my thread would have been too thin.
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