The purse is finally done...

[bustedlifter]

Very cool, I think my wife would dig it!

[tazzmann]

Tina, we are our own worst critics. Your tooling is top notch. My wife want this bag. I can't get her to stop drooling on my shoulder when she looks at it while I am in front of the computer. I had to put plastic wrap on the keyboard to keep it from getting wet. LOL

All kidding aside, that is an AWESOME purse!

[TomSwede]

Thank You Spider, very nice of you:-)

No Roo to both, just "tooling around". I'm making some ideas I have in my head to create a portfolio for a new web page, I need to have something to show:-)

ChaChi, first off, great thanks for your nice comments and glad you find it worth looking at more than once.

I wish it would hold for up-side-down but it's only a string around and I'm affraid everything would just fall out:-(

About the quallity of the tooling, well, I think I have loads to improve on that one, aspecially to do the straight lines, tricky suckers:-) Because I'm new to this I might have a chance for the future?

Did you notice the little chain on top of my strömsländan bag? Just for that purpose i attached the chain, that bag will contain two pretty expensive flyfishinreels and, bummer if they fall out.

I love the ceramic angled blade for long (or short) straight lines, the angle is perfect and makes it really easy to navigate along a scribed line, also I have a forehead light, LED type to avoid shadowing. Of course I don't have many blades to compare to here at Tjäderläder Sweden.

Yeah, right, and I'm as athletic as a refigerator!!! C'mon, your stuff rocks!!!

Tom

[SCOUTER]

Wow Tina! The carving alone would have been enough to WOW us but the creation of something useable! OUTSTANDING! Love it!!!!

[ArtS]

That is really cool! Great job. I like the design and the hair on hide.

ArtS

[Tina]

bustedlifter Thats vey nice of you to say:-)

tazzmann Wow *SSS* I'm happy your wife likes it, means I'm on the right track:-) I like celtic or what I would like to call it, viking ideas (have you ever seen the typical run stones, Sweden is full of them and they all tell a story, I'll paste in a picture of one at the end of this answer, cool stuff) and gothic/neo-gothic inspired designs/items. Say big HI to wife and great thanks:-)

Your so very right about "we are our own worst critics"...I know this and still, I keep going on it *blushing*

Tom I'm on to some idea with a "lid" (don't know the proper name in english...flap?) Just need to experiment some more cuz I really like this construction for a purse, it's easy to incorporate hair on hides and such.

The ceramic blade is my next investment, the more I read about it the more it make sense, I only use the filigree blade to everything.

Last but not least, Thank you for your comment, cracks a smile:-)

Great Thank you SCOUTER, your comment are always so nice:-) I just said to hubby the other night when I showed him some items, "look, you can actually use them". I simply love the versatility of leather, it's awesome:-)

Thanks Art...I did grab some boxes on ebay with that hair-on-hide and got a nice collection that will be very useful, this is not the last one with fur:-)

Edited March 20, 2008 by Tina

[Drac]

about time ya got it finished, slacker! *L* now that is mighty fine and something all of us making bags should try to get to the level of. congrats!

[Tina]

Great Thanks Drack from "the slacker" :-)

This was my first try at hand sewing and it took longer time than expected, but I'm on the way to make yet another one, just cant deside which theme, to many to pick from.

[johnny7]

Great looking purse Tina.

[Drac]

the more ya do of 'em, the faster you'll get at it. can't wait to see what design you decide to use next. how long did it actually take you to do everything? personaly, I hate projects that take me longer than a day to do. I'm used to being able to do at least 3 of me main item a day and I still feel like a slacker.