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Hello everyone! Designed a new, small bag for documents, smartphones, keys. How practical and convenient it is - time will tell. Used leather 1.4-1.6 mm. Perhaps it was better to choose a skin that is thinner and softer, but dense skin holds its shape well and looks good. Punch pitch 4mm. YKK zippers # 3 One zipper can be used for side pockets, as an option for both. I want to congratulate everyone on the upcoming New Year holidays! Take care of yourself and your loved ones! All goodness and peace! telegram pattern video tuturial AK-bag_1.pdf

I started my leather crafting journey a year back.Very impressed with the level of talent in this forum.Request your feedback on something that I have been working on.

This shows a few of the steps I took along the way as I made this bag. There are 4 bags to be made out of Australian saltwater crocodile skin and to be ready over the next week coming. The background to this is that these four Chinese customers I have done works for previously want to revist Australia and get me to make them each a bag to take back home with them. As this has been done in such a rush some of the bag hardware I wanted to get from Ohio Travel and flashy zips did not get used. AS hard as I tried I could not get my pattern measurements to work satisfactorily as shown below so I decided o resort to some old steps from my shoe making days.The first couple of pictures show the first bag as complete. This following picture shows my first disastrous patterning effort using cad software. Here following I resorted to making up the shape I wanted by gluing and sanding up some craft-wood and then like the old shoe lasts I used masking tape to do multiple overlapping layers around the shape. With the patterns broken down into 15 degree increments I transferred these spacings onto my mould and the masking paper.These marks are for aligning the pieces as they come together. Next the masking tape I removed and l flattened onto my cutting table. This was then attached to an A3 sheet of printing board. I then took a picture directly overhead and placed it into my cad program to trace around and bring to match the correct size. It could be done without this step but I like to have all of my patterns stored together. This next pic shows that the bag now sits flat and I am on the right track. I will post some more pictures later. Brian

Well it finally happened. My first real project.A Lady's shoulder bag/sling bag. I just have to make a strap for it.

Well it finally happened. My first real project.A Lady's shoulder bag/sling bag. I just have to make a strap for it.

Hey! So I've been having this problem with my bag flaps curling around after stitching. The weight of my leather is like a garment leather with a little stretch. I'm trying to make a bag flap for my sling bags and I do want the stitches to be around the edges. I'm getting that curling effect though. I know it's because the machine is pulling the thread tight and since the leather has a little stretch, that is what is causing it. So I guess I'm asking: What can I do about it? How can I make it appear less curled? Should I layer the flap with two layers of the leather? Should I do a double layer with a bag stiffener into the edges? Thanks in advance to anyone who has any ideas.