- 1). Measure one of your legs from the bottom of your foot at the heel to the back of your knee and around at the widest part of your calf. For the width add enough so you will have plenty of overlap, at least a couple of inches.
- 2). Take your dimensions and mark them onto your deer hide. Cut two pieces of those dimensions from the deer hide and two from your needlepoint cloth (or whatever you decided to use for rigidity). Cut the rigid material slightly smaller than the deer skin so you have approximately 1 inch margin of deerskin that overhangs the cloth.
- 3). Apply any beadwork, such as rosette pieces, to the leggings.
- 4). Match a piece of deerskin with the cloth and stitch around all four sides. This provides some rigidity so the leggings won't sag.
- 5). Apply the velcro to the vertical length of the legging. The coarse side goes on the outer overlapping edge. The fuzzy side will be applied to the underside. Make sure to mark where you want the fuzzy part; you want the leggings to be snug enough so they won't sag.
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