Handbags | Leather | Sewing

Another gift

January 9, 2017

I was hoping to get this gift made over my holiday break from work, but I just did a lot of reading and resting.  I needed that, but now I am stressing on getting projects done that I have volunteered to do.

This is what I need to finish up this week:

  • Sample sewing some fabric, plus nice pictures with it.
  • Test a men’s t-shirt pattern.  I have two to make for the boy, with some HTV cut out for them.  Nice pictures of them are needed, too.
  • Start sewing the bags for a charity auction – I’m hoping to donate two.  I would like to do a bead strip in one, so that means I need to do some loom beading for it.  That takes awhile to do.

In the meantime, I was able to get one thing off the list, which is this birthday present for my sister.  Her birthday is Thursday this week, but I know she doesn’t look at my blog.  I am going to get this in the mail, so she gets it by then.

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This is made from an oiled cowhide and the blue is a lambskin.  I am hoping the oiled cowhide doesn’t discolor the blue too much.

I tried to make this smaller than my regular bag size, but I should have gone smaller still.  It is still a good sized bag.

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The inside is brown and gold, with a zippered pocket.

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It has a snap closure, where I put a concho on the backside of the snap.  There is a conversion kit that Tandy sells.  It is basically a small screw that takes the place of the back of the concho, which fits in the middle of the snap.

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The interior has 3 different types of interfacing (foam, peltex and regular interfacing), and it also has gold metal bag feet on the bottom.  This took me around 6 hours to make.  I had to do some hand-stitching around the top, since it was too thick for my sewing machine at the corners.

Making leather bags can be a bit frustrating, with the bulk and skipping stitches.  Now, I only have two more bags I need to get done, PLUS I need a new black bag for myself.  My old black bag was made from faux leather and it ripped at the handle.  It’s been like that for months, but I haven’t sat down to make a new one.  There’s always something else that needs to get made, so I want to make sure I get that made in next month.  Or so.

No rest for the weary!

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