Oh, what lovely colors and textures!

These beautiful leather pieces just arrived in my mailbox!  I ordered them from BeadsEast.com and I'll use them for the backing material of my bead embroidered pieces.  I prefer using leather over ultra suede because it is far easier to keep clean.  These are very thin and supple pieces of leather which make passing a needle through a pleasant task when edging a piece.  I ordered several of my favorite colors including metallics which pickup the colorful inclusions of my "cosmic cabochons".