A gift from Pete to his wife

[Johanna]

Pete made this for his wife, lucky lady!

Thanks for sharing, Pete!

Johanna

[Billy P]

Nice work Pete, if I can ever find a pattern for them I might try one of those stirrup purses myself. I'll bet the wife really likes that one. Again really nice. Regards Billy P

[MatthewD]

Nice Work Pete.. I have a feeling that my daughter might like something like that...

[pete]

I didn't have any pattern. I just knew that I wanted to make a stirrup looking purse so I cut a piece of 7/8 to 4"x22" and rounded the ends. The flowers are out of Chan Geer's sheridan.

I'm self taught to this craft so I just wing it as I go. I guess that I should prepare more but......

Fiebing's USMC black and Fiebings med brown antique paste. Black calf for the outside and black deerskin fr the lining. Glued it all together and laced it.

Chan geer was kind enought to talk on the phone to tell me exactly how he finishes everything nor.

Bee natural oil- let dry

bee natural RTC

Antique paste- rub off with rags/tee shirt- then sheepskin to get the paste out of the cracks to your degree of happiness

One last GOOD rub(lots of pressure) to buff the finish. Buff hard and you will get a finish like it was burnished.

RTC again

Hope that this helps.

By the way- my photo portfolios were wung, winged, made up as I went along too. they are all 12x24

pete