Prize Winning Hand Bag

[tsunkasapa]

Excellent work! Years ago I put one of my belts in our county fair, and I beat out one of our local saddle makers for 'Judges Choice' and 1st place, so I know how you feel.

[Sheilajeanne]

CONGRATULATIONS!! Great work! Lovely!

(And I think I see the 'rookie mistake' - the latch isn't 100% line up with the horseshoe, but no one's going to notice when the latch is closed!)

[PastorBob]

Nicely done.  I love how you stretched out the basket weaves.  That looks awesome.

[Gezzer]

VERY VERY NICE !!!!!  ? is that a seeder used for the border on the basket weave  ?

[AndrewWR]

Y'know, looking at that open bag shot, the age of the leather is working for you. It looks much more genuinely vintage than new leather with an 'antique' finish and everyone knows leather gets better with age: It has that in common with wine, women and songs.

Those perfectly straight stitching lines are eye catchers too. Nothing speaks of quality like good stitching. 

Congratulations on the recognition and commercial success ('cos money beats ribbons.)

 

[bladegrinder]

Great work Handstitched, congrats!

[Bert03241]

Well I can't add anything that wasn't said already  so well done

[Klara]

Great work! And those Quarter Horses look fine to me! (If that's what they are supposed to be )

[Handstitched]

22 hours ago, Sheilajeanne said:

And I think I see the 'rookie mistake' - the latch isn't 100% line up with the horseshoe, but no one's going to notice when the latch is closed!)

Well done, you get the free beer   ( or a fruit juice if you don't drink) .

Apart from that, the latch  is in the way of the image . About half an inch or so lower , it would have cleared it. I underestimated the size of the clasp. But I am very happy with result .BW is always a challenge .

On 10/7/2022 at 8:54 PM, chuck123wapati said:

That belt design is cool.

I love to doodle on leather , see what tool does what, have a play. If I like it, it goes on a project.  It also makes the design ' unique'  . 

 

21 hours ago, Gezzer said:

is that a seeder used for the border on the basket weave

Yes. I used a cammo on the outline of the bw , and a seeder to finish off  

16 hours ago, AndrewWR said:

Those perfectly straight stitching lines are eye catchers too. Nothing speaks of quality like good stitching. 

Thank you. I had no template for the gussets,  so I made my own.....with  some guess work . 

Thank you all for your comments & feed back . 

HS

[Gezzer]

@Handstitched  Thank you and that is  "genius "  !!