Thanks! I tend to figure that if I sketch out and try everything on as I go, I'm not likely to make too many mistakes. I've made a lot of stuff in the past, but I'm way out of practice now.

Have you ever done leather working? That's what I'm most nervous about...I've never even tried it, though it's something I've wanted to learn for about 3 years, for a completely different reason. (I would like to learn to do leather book bindings...though it has ceased to be today's dream...)