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Hello. This is my second leather bag. Third actually, but we won’t mention the first one  lol. Anyway, I would appreciate critique from you guys. It’s the first one in this pattern I made so I do have to make adjustments for the second one I make.

i hand stitched the haas barenia straps with reverse pricking irons..as well as the other trimmings. The underside has the slanted saddle stitch..but I like straight stitches since the rest of the bag was machine sewn. 

I’m  saving up for a fileteuse so once I get that hopefully my edge work will improve. I did use an edge beveler in the barenia but I’m not sure I did that right...once I painted I could still see where the leather was skinned off on the sides..maybe I didn’t paint down far enough?? I have no idea. Anyway, let me know how I can improve this bag. I want to make more and sell the !

one other thing I think I need to do is have the zipper deeper between the two layers. It’s a number 8 UCAN zipper...it just looks like too much tape is showing..any thoughts on that? Thanks!

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Well done!  You should be proud of that one!

- Bill

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5 minutes ago, billybopp said:

Well done!  You should be proud of that one!

- Bill

Thank you! Do you know of any companies on here that laser cut patterns? Like if I provided the pattern and leather, they would cut it out for me?

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Black River Laser will do that for you.

That bag is awesome. How did you do that braid on the strap?

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

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That is really clean and beautiful work Jeannie! You can't tell it isn't store bought.

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WOW!  Beautifully done!  Clean lines and excellent stitching--this one jumped out at me.  

I can only hope to do as well.  Need a student?  ;)

"Don't squat with your spurs on."

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That's fantastic! Love the bleedknot.

So much leather...so little time.

 

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4 hours ago, bikermutt07 said:

Black River Laser will do that for you.

That bag is awesome. How did you do that braid on the strap?

Ok thanks! I got the idea from dooney and Bourke. I cut slots and twisted it within itself.

2 hours ago, battlemunky said:

That is really clean and beautiful work Jeannie! You can't tell it isn't store bought.

Thank you very much! I am enjoying learning how to make them! 

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2 hours ago, BruceGibson said:

WOW!  Beautifully done!  Clean lines and excellent stitching--this one jumped out at me.  

I can only hope to do as well.  Need a student?  ;)

Thanks! I’m still learning myself but I will definitely help you any way I can! I find bags online made by the high end designers..I look at the bag for days and get the measurements from websites. Then I think some more days on what they had to do to make it..then I make a pattern from the measurements. I’ve done that with the first two leather bags. This one I made my own but used techniques I learned from the other two. The dooney and Bourke Sloan was my inspiration.

1 hour ago, alpha2 said:

That's fantastic! Love the bleedknot.

Thank you so much! That’s what that knot is called? Lol Dooney and Bourke does that with some of their straps. I fell in love with it and spent many nights in bed making it in my head until I figured it out lol!

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