Stitched leater ?

I've seen 'tooled leather look, and some very nioce leather filters.
I'm racking my brain on how I would make a stitched leather look.

Conceptually, I'm thinking about combining one of the doily or lace looking filters, and superimposing them on leather, and adjust, perhaps add a slight blur, to get a little bit of cusioning relief.

Now for the stitching, I suppose I could take a fine grid and blend it with the lace to get broken lines.. but I think I would like something that maybe follows the lines more. Something tells me I may not be able to refine it much more... buf if someone has a better idea, I'm all ears!

stitching usually found on shoes and jackets and purses.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocell/947490322/

Jacket, looks like combination of tooling and stitching: http://www.urbanstyledirect.com/produ...0/5870.jpg

I did figure out how to make tooled leather look in various types of patterns.
If I take the same pattern and reduce it to outlines, then break it into dashes then I can have stitcing.

Here's a stitched swirl: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kateyezco/1262911088/
Stitching outlining belt rivets: http://www.asos.com/images/inv/C/18/1...mage1l.jpg

the direction of the dashes follows the direction of the line. If I superimpose a simple grid to mimick broken lines, it won't look all that believable.

As Im thinking about it out loud, it seems to me I would have to break up the linework early in the pattern development...

here's a tooled leather filter I made (by cannibalizing several other fiters and combining bits).
I'd like to add stitching around the outer rim of the patterns. The outline I want to break up into stitching is the fainter outter line you see in the pic. I still need to change it's look more. perhaps turn it ito a thread....

ok, that first link is somewhat what i thought you were asking for. i'd start there. it's a nice straight line, which shld make things easier. curving the line and matching it to a pattern on another image, that gets a bit tricky.

for the straight line, try a Step curve plugged into a profile gradient.

Hi Michael
I noticed your filter yesterday, and promptly had to see how you did the twisted stitching (I hope you don't mind). Very clever!

LOL, I lulled myself to sleep last night trying to figure how to twist a braid with the similar method! Maybe in my next life.