Small bag from A4 piece

[Small bag from A4 piece]

1 hour ago, Klara said:

Thanks for the pictures! It's not how I imagined, but most probably looks better. The bottom corners sure look tricky... and the rest not too easy either. I think that's a case where I wouls punch the holes all the way through so I could work without awl - did you?

Yes, I punched it all first and didn't use an awl

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1 hour ago, DrmCa said:

Wow! You must have small hands, to accomplish that! How did you get needles/awls in there?

Haha, I actually have pretty large hands (for a woman), but yes, getting the needles in there was quite tricky - I did both short sides first so I was sort of working my way up and out of the bag as it came together

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On 1/15/2022 at 12:03 PM, fredk said:

Are you sure its A4? It looks more like A3 to me

Definitely A4 (but that doesn't include the leather for the straps). It does happen to be pictured on a particularly small person here which makes it look  bigger! The final bag is approx 14 x 9 x 3cm (5.6 x 3.6 x 1.2")

5 hours ago, Handstitched said:

O'h for goodness sake !!!!!!!!

Is this about a nice bag that the maker  has made or  the size of a bit of bloody paper ????

 

@imocow Its a lovely bag, I quite like it . I too have experimented with .. 'cough ahem'...... " bags with a similar dimension to paper", going by customer demand. Not too big or bulky . 

Looks like  a one piece creation  ?? . I have done two piece creations using kangaroo hide. Mostly 'one offs ' . Keep up the good work  

HS

Thanks  Yep, a single piece (except the small strips enclosing the D-loops)

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On 1/15/2022 at 9:06 AM, Klara said:

That's really nice! Could you show us a picture from the side, please? I'm interested in the gusset and the bottom corners...

Here's the side! It's stitched right side to wrong side because I wanted a smooth rounded sort of shape

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4 minutes ago, DrmCa said:

Nice. What's A4?

The paper size! (210 x 297mm) - the place I ordered my leather from had A4-size pieces that were very affordable, so it seemed like a good place to start before buying a larger amount of leather

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I'm just getting started with leather craft - I wanted to make a bag out of a single A4 piece of leather, and this is the result

Also had a go at making the pattern into a printable pdf