Bracelet making

I wanted to make a bracelet featured in the magazine Making Jewellery.

I had some natural leather and had read about natural plant dyes. I liked the idea so thought I'd give it a try.

I like green so I thought I would use mint. I found a good website and followed the first step of preparing for the dye. My leather went from this


To this



Not what I was aiming for!

I now have another bit of leather soaking in green food colouring and water to see if that works. No hot water has been used!