New Tote bag for my daughter.

[Mattsbagger]

My daughter asked me to make he a tote bag for work. She is VERY specific about what she want. I mean VERY. Its made with the Granger Excel 4/5 oz. 

[Retswerb]

Mission accomplished! The nice thing about specific requests is you know you’ve given something that will get used. My daughter wants a bag but hasn’t given me much to go on, I hate putting work into something I don’t know if she’ll like. Nice work on this one.

[Mattsbagger]

3 hours ago, Retswerb said:

Mission accomplished! The nice thing about specific requests is you know you’ve given something that will get used. My daughter wants a bag but hasn’t given me much to go on, I hate putting work into something I don’t know if she’ll like. Nice work on this one.

Here is what she gave me to work with. And then there were a lot of questions and pictures off the internet. Like this but not this. If ya know what I mean. Lol

[Scoutmom103]

Nice.

Nothing like putting a lot of love, thought and work into a hand crafted gift to have the recipient not use it or turn up their nose and reject it outright.

Edited April 15, 2020 by Scoutmom103

[YinTx]

Looks top notch and really functional to boot!  Well done.

YinTx

[Mattsbagger]

50 minutes ago, YinTx said:

Looks top notch and really functional to boot!  Well done.

YinTx

Thank you. Not using chrome tan much not super happy with the stitching.

[CastleLeatherWorks]

Hey that's a great design and some nice looking leather. are the straps single or double layer?

[AzShooter]

Very nice work. I just downloaded my first pattern and I'm hoping to make it next week.

[Mattsbagger]

On 4/29/2020 at 10:34 AM, CastleLeatherWorks said:

Hey that's a great design and some nice looking leather. are the straps single or double layer?

The straps are double layer. I didn’t like how the test piece stitched up. So it’s glued and the edges are painted with Fenice paint. About 4 coats. And thank you. 

Edited May 1, 2020 by Mattsbagger

[TG23]

I know all tote dimensions are different....but need a rough estimate on how much sqft of leather to buy to get at least 2 maybe 3 average sized totes.