I've stumbled across a wonderful material that will help us fellow Zam seamstresses make the various Zam parts, far far easier....
Seen as pig skin is stretchy it's a bugger to sew with, right? Not anymore...
If you iron on heat activated cotton glue sheets to this inside of the pig skin, this helps LOADS!
It doesn't spoil anything, just helps to stop the pig skin stretching under your needle and over time.
Don't leave the iron on too long as the skin wrinkles up and shrinks
Check this out...
Basic length, plus mock up of belt that fits Becky
After ironing the cotton onto the pig skin strip
Trim it all away
Leaves you with a little pig skin, cotton pocket
Far easier to mark out now as it won't lose it's shape.
And then you can add quilting like this
Hope this helps someone