coupon pouch/purse

[MADMAX22]

Well the girlfriend decided she wanted a coupon pouch thing to store all her coupons in when we go to the store. Two pockets really one for all of them then as you get the stuff you put the ones your gonna use in the other pocket. Anyways .....

Its 3/4oz except for the strap which is 6oz, lined with pig skin. The center wall is doubled up pigskin.

I used deluted light brown (feibings), then a shot of neats foot, then leather balm with atom wax, then antique followed up with leather balm, and finally a coat of oil and a final leather balm. Kind of a process in developement sort of playing around with finishes.

The lion is one of the dover series designs, the vine things are just a little drawing I made up, just simple one liners.

Now some issues I had

1)The gussets first time trying these and they were easy to make but a pain to get lined up right. Then I made a huge mistake of not tiying off the lacing slits every 10 or 15 which ended up getting my cocked over.

2)The lacing at the bottom of the gussets where the inner circumfrance is smaller then the outer one thru me for a loop. I could use some help with what people do for that type of lacing.

3) The lines form my pattern that I traced on ended up taking up the antique and showed up, partly due to I kind of went freehand on the leave/vine things. Plus the lines for my reference ended up staying. Kind of sucked but oh well.

Oh and the lace is 3/32 dark brown tajas

Criticism welcome and incouraged, thanks