I have leveled a half dozen professions to 70 typically using HQ items provided by my miner or botanist. With Leaf Turn and Unearth is a easy to acquire HQ mats. I have found, at some lover levels, making 4 HQ items is more exp than a levee quest! And generally I turn in HQ items for levees to get twice the exp.

The thing stopping me from leveling leathercraft is the ability to get HQ mats. I assume getting leathercrafts mats means killing some animal on the hoof and in my experience HQ drops are pretty rare. Not at all like getting 12 HQ items from a single node. Am I off base here or is there some way to get HQ mats for leathercraft similar to the ease of getting them with a miner or botanist?