Members Colt W Knight Posted October 31, 2015 Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Earlier this year, my parents came to visit, and I made a gunbelt and holster for my dad. While dad and I were looking at leather, mom starts stacking up leather and hardware on the counter and says, you can make me a purse with this. I agreed to make her one since I was making a holster for dad. She loved, and shared pictures everything, and I ended up making another for a Cattle Growers convention auction. Then my mom wanted another one in a different color, then my uncle wanted one for my aunt, then my mom wanted me to make purses for family members for Christmas. I finaly finished them all, and I am done with purses. Quote
Northmount Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 Very nice, even if you don't feel like making more right now, I'm sure you will later. But I agree, after making the same sort of thing several times, it is nice to move on to something else for a time. Tom Quote
Members Rohn Posted October 31, 2015 Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Those all look nice Colt. Did you have a pattern or did you just make up you own? Quote
Members Windrider30 Posted October 31, 2015 Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Really like all of those! Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted October 31, 2015 Author Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Those all look nice Colt. Did you have a pattern or did you just make up you own? THanks This was all original. I cut up an old Zales paper bag to make the body template. The pockets were trial and error. I wanted to make them draw string purses, and ended up using a Bolo tie because I didn't know how to make a tassle to terminate a braided cord. Quote
Members Rohn Posted October 31, 2015 Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Thanks for the reply Colt. My wife is interested in making some purses and I'm going to show these to her. Quote
Boriqua Posted October 31, 2015 Report Posted October 31, 2015 Those look GREAT! Love em. Where did you get the liner material. Nice choices. I would say my friend that you may have a knack for these so I wouldnt be so quick to give up on them. Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted October 31, 2015 Author Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Those look GREAT! Love em. Where did you get the liner material. Nice choices. I would say my friend that you may have a knack for these so I wouldnt be so quick to give up on them. Lining is cloth from JoAnne Fabric. I got the WVU fabric online. Quote
Members rosiart Posted October 31, 2015 Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Very nice and I'll bet they are a hit. It"s a little hard to tell, but what are the dimensions of these? Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted October 31, 2015 Author Members Report Posted October 31, 2015 Very nice and I'll bet they are a hit. It"s a little hard to tell, but what are the dimensions of these? They are about 9 inches tall. Quote
Members dfrensdorff Posted November 3, 2015 Members Report Posted November 3, 2015 You are not done with purses my friend.....those are too nice....more orders to come! Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted November 3, 2015 Author Members Report Posted November 3, 2015 Thanks for all the kind words everyone, I may have just gotten weaseled into doing another purse. UGHH! Quote
Members Clamatron Posted November 4, 2015 Members Report Posted November 4, 2015 That's what you get for making such nice purses! Quote
Members MonicaJacobson Posted November 4, 2015 Members Report Posted November 4, 2015 Wow, that's a lot of purses. Nice work! Quote
Members Grey Drakkon Posted November 4, 2015 Members Report Posted November 4, 2015 Haha if you didn't want to keep making them you should have made the first one look awful! Your own fault for being too good. Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted November 8, 2015 Author Members Report Posted November 8, 2015 Thanks yall Quote
Members dutchvalleyleather Posted November 9, 2015 Members Report Posted November 9, 2015 Nice work! I made the mistake of showing your purses to my wife. Where did you get the leather? She really likes the colors. Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted November 9, 2015 Author Members Report Posted November 9, 2015 Nice work! I made the mistake of showing your purses to my wife. Where did you get the leather? She really likes the colors. All the leather is from Hide House Most of it is deer. Quote
Contributing Member Bob Blea Posted November 10, 2015 Contributing Member Report Posted November 10, 2015 I agree with the others, nice purses. You're going to get requests for more of those. Quote
Members BMW Posted November 12, 2015 Members Report Posted November 12, 2015 My wife is going to start making purses and is deciding what machine to purchase. Can you tell me if these were made on a cylinder arm machine or a table? Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted November 14, 2015 Author Members Report Posted November 14, 2015 My wife is going to start making purses and is deciding what machine to purchase. Can you tell me if these were made on a cylinder arm machine or a table? Flatbed machine Quote
Members Woz214 Posted November 25, 2015 Members Report Posted November 25, 2015 What glue did you use for the liner? Im working on real first project and i have fabric i want to use to line the clutch purse.. Quote
Members Colt W Knight Posted November 25, 2015 Author Members Report Posted November 25, 2015 3M 77 spray glue. I use an iron, the rubbing aND the heat create a much stronger bond between the leather and the fabric Quote
Members Woz214 Posted November 25, 2015 Members Report Posted November 25, 2015 Thanks realy nice bags by the way... Quote
Members Michael Woo Posted November 26, 2015 Members Report Posted November 26, 2015 it is so nice and I also surprise to find that it is a similar bag to my mine ( in my Picture ) , Quote
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