First purse

[JDFred]

I just finished this purse for my mother in law. It’s hand sewn with a hair on inlay.  Thanks to everyone on the critique side of this forum for the help with the acorns and oak leaves, I hope I did it justice.  Let me know what you think and where I can do better.

[DieselTech]

Looks great! Nice work.

[Brokenolmarine]

Very nice work, the tooling on the large quilting is excellent.

[JDFred]

10 hours ago, DieselTech said:

Looks great! Nice work.

Thank you

 

9 hours ago, Brokenolmarine said:

Very nice work, the tooling on the large quilting is excellent.

Thank you, learn to use a straight edge with my swivel knife made that quilting a lot easier.

[Brokenolmarine]

I do the same thing on large patterns with long lines.

[Bob Blea]

Nice work!

[JDFred]

On 3/24/2025 at 8:13 AM, Brokenolmarine said:

I do the same thing on large patterns with long lines.

I struggled getting the hang of it my, ruler or my knife would wander, it got a lot better after I got a ceramic blade. I guess it glides in the leather and along the ruler better.  I apologize for sounding rude in my original reply to you I meant to say “I learned to use a straight edge…”  my thoughts and my typing weren’t working together.

 

55 minutes ago, Bob Blea said:

Nice work!

Thank you.

[Brokenolmarine]

1 hour ago, JDFred said:

I struggled getting the hang of it my, ruler or my knife would wander, it got a lot better after I got a ceramic blade. I guess it glides in the leather and along the ruler better.  I apologize for sounding rude in my original reply to you I meant to say “I learned to use a straight edge…”  my thoughts and my typing weren’t working together.

 

Thank you.

Been there and done that, and I wasn't offended.  I knew what you meant, thus my answer saying that I did the same thing on my larger projects.  I have a build along post here on the sight for a Knife Display Case where I combined my Woodworking, Leather Work, and Knife Making hobbies all into one, making the knife display case, tooling a leather background, and then displaying all the knives I hadn't passed to friends and family in the case.  The tooling for that project took something like a week, and I used my 60" ruler to cut in the lines on that Qullted pattern and the borders.  

 

[Brokenolmarine]

Here is the Build Along for the Display case (If you are intersted.)

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/120263-knife-display-case-wip/

 

[JDFred]

11 minutes ago, Brokenolmarine said:

Here is the Build Along for the Display case (If you are intersted.)

https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/120263-knife-display-case-wip/

 

I did follow along when you built that it was a very impressive project, showing off a wide range of skills.  It turned out beautifully.