I was really going all out for that soft leather. It's already November, and the wind is quite cold in the mornings and evenings, but I'm enduring the chill in the wind by wearing a grass skirt to make leather.

After soaking for a day, I softened all the skin. I didn't have a professional scraper, so I could only use the kitchen knife I made to scrape off the excess fat.

The instructions require scraping the logs, but their curved blades are only suitable for scraping logs.

So I found two smooth, leveled wooden planks to use as cutting boards, put the leather on them, and started scraping off the excess fat and other residue.

After scraping it all off, I took out concentrated wood ash water and applied it evenly to the back of the leather with my hands. It's important not to get the concentrated wood ash water on the hair side, otherwise it will pull the hair off.

After alkalizing for a period of time, I rinsed off all the alkali solution with clean water. At this point, the skin was no longer transparent and had turned slightly white; this was the initial cooking process.

I scraped it again, and this time there was much less residue than the first time. The high concentration of alkaline water saponifies the oils in the leather fibers, which can then be scraped off with the knife.

Wash the cleaned bark with clean water, then tie several corners along the edges of the bark with hemp rope, and then fix it to the tree trunk to spread it out and dry. During this time, cover it with banana leaves to avoid direct exposure to the sun.

By afternoon, the leather had been shaped and dried. I took the leather off and then sewed the jackal skin, which wasn't in a tubular shape, and the beaver skin into a tubular shape using hemp thread.

Next, I made a cylindrical smoke collector out of banana leaves. A large amount of wood smoke was collected by the banana leaves and then entered the cylindrical leather.

This kind of smoking process requires a full night to cook the food.

The next day, I braved the biting cold wind in the morning to collect the leather, which had been tanned overnight.

I removed the leather and linen stitching, revealing that the inside was now a pale yellow. The leather, after being tanned, was no longer as hard as dry leather, but it still needed to go through the next step.

This is where the leather press I made before comes in handy. You put the leather into the press and press it repeatedly to stretch the leather fibers again.

The leather, having been pressed evenly several times, has become softer, but it still needs to undergo a final process.

The final step is to add fat.

During the leather processing, excessive loss of oils increases the leather's water absorption, causing it to harden again after absorbing water and drying.

To avoid this problem, an appropriate amount of oil needs to be added to the stretched leather fibers to prevent the leather from shrinking.

However, I do have something better than oils. I had some leftover glycerin after making soap before, and it's much better to add it than those oils.

I applied the glycerin evenly to the leather with my hands, and then rubbed it repeatedly to allow it to be fully absorbed into the leather fibers.

Then, he found a bamboo stalk with its joints polished smooth and fixed it horizontally to the tree branch. He then placed the bark on the bamboo and quickly rubbed it against the bamboo with both hands.

Continue rubbing until the leather feels slightly warm. At this point, the leather, after several tanning processes, has become extremely soft, comparable to the fur coats sold on the street.

Holding these tanned hides in my hands, I felt great. Now I have a complete cylindrical leopard skin, a jackal skin, a beaver skin, and several rabbit skins.

I plan to keep the jackal skin for now. Since the rabbit skin is also tubular, I'll sew them directly onto the leopard skin's forelimb tubular skin.

This way, my forearm can be covered by rabbit fur and won't be affected by the cold wind.

Then I took the fur from the remaining rabbits and sewed it onto the tubular leather at the base of the leopard's thigh to make my trouser legs.

A proper set of winter clothes should include a hat.

To make it easier to apply, I turned the beaver's pelt inside out and sewed it onto the leopard's neck pelt with hemp thread. I also sewed the separated beaver pelts together to make a casual hat.

Because this beaver pelt is very large, there is still a lot of excess fur sticking out, and I don't plan to cut off this fur to keep it looking nice.

Now I'm the only one left in this world. As for whether I'm pretty or not, I don't care anymore. Now I'm only considering things from the most practical perspective.

I burned two small holes in the extra fur on each side of my cheeks with sparks, and then tied it up with hemp rope.

This way, when needed, the hemp rope can be threaded through the small hole to gather the fur on both sides, protecting the face from the cold wind.

I put on the new clothes, and the soft fur felt warm and comfortable against my skin. I looked myself up and down and felt very satisfied.

Who would have thought that I am now wearing a luxurious outfit made of several expensive animal furs? If this outfit were in my old world, I would probably be jailed for life.

I had kept one leopard skin untanned because I was worried about it getting cold at night. Now that I have clothes to keep warm, I've tanned the remaining leopard skin using the same method.

When Top saw that I had transformed into a different person in such a short time, it curiously came over and looked at and touched my new clothes. It didn't understand how many strange and wonderful tricks I had up my sleeve.

"How about it, Top? Not bad, right?" I said to Top with a smile.

Top squeaked twice, grinned broadly, and clapped for me repeatedly.

I patted Top's head for a while, and now the clothes were ready. I looked down at my feet and couldn't help but smile wryly; they were still the same pair of flip-flops I had made before.

It seems I still have a lot to do, but figuring out how to make a pair of shoes is stumping me.

In the past, in industrial society, you only needed to go to the street or place an order online to get what you needed. Now, you have to use your own brain to get even the smallest things.

For example, the sewing needle I've always used wasn't originally made of metal. It was made by grinding bamboo and then drilling a hole little by little with a hard thorn.

It wasn't until gold became a metal that I was able to use sewing needles made of gold.

When making shoes, the most important things for winter are warmth and waterproofing. I have leather available for warmth, but waterproofing is a bit more difficult.

I think the best way would be to make the shoes into a shape like rain boots, so that their waterproof and snowproof effects would be optimal.

I racked my brains for two days to figure out how to make a pair of shoes, but I rejected several of the ideas I came up with until one day I saw something that gave me a new inspiration.