New purse

[JDFred]

My daughter needed a gift for the buyer of her project at our county stock show.  Since her buyer happens to be my boss’s wife I was able to customize a purse for her.  I used 5/6 oz Hermann Oak skirting for the panels, and for the gusset some chrome tan that I found at Tandy on clearance I thought look nice. The pattern I used was from Tandy’s purse pattern pack that I modified to have an interior pocket and have a wider gusset with a shoulder strap instead of the wrist strap it called for.  I used the tooling pattern that came with it slightly modified to incorporate the brand.  I gave it a couple coats of neats foot oil and used mahogany antique and finished with tan-kote.  Sewed it together with Maine Thread .040 twisted thread.  Here are some pictures, let me know what you think.

Edited Friday at 03:50 AM by JDFred

[chuck123wapati]

i think it came out pretty darn good!

[JDFred]

56 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

i think it came out pretty darn good!

Thank you Chuck

[FrankHester]

Nice work!

[JDFred]

4 hours ago, FrankHester said:

Nice work!

Thank you Frank

[lmroces]

Very impressive!

[JDFred]

On 2/14/2026 at 2:07 AM, lmroces said:

Very impressive!

Thank you

[DoubleKCustomLeathercraft]

That's looks good. It'll last s lifetime and I'm sure the owner will love the custom work. 

[JDFred]

8 hours ago, DoubleKCustomLeathercraft said:

That's looks good. It'll last s lifetime and I'm sure the owner will love the custom work. 

Thanks. She really liked it when we dropped it off, especially the brand.  It was kinda funny, when the show board changed the rule to have the kids give buyer’s gifts she came to our board meeting and told us she didn’t like the rule change.  Fast forward a couple years to when we dropped the purse off she said she remembered coming to the meeting and telling us she disagreed with the rule,  then she said, with a big smile on her face “but now look at what I got”.  I thought it was kinda funny.