New Tote bag for my daughter.

[Mattsbagger]

On 5/1/2020 at 4:32 PM, TG23 said:

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.

You are gonna need a whole side to get 2 or 3 totes. This bag is 18” X 30” plus pocket and straps.

[thawk8541]

Great loooking bag!

[Dwight]

On 4/15/2020 at 4:59 AM, 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.

Let double down on hating to put work into something that won't be appreciated.

I built a very pretty  bag for a young lady once as a wedding present.  Spent many hours on it . . . getting it right . . . picking the colors, the leather, the accouterments, etc.

Several months after the wedding . . . I got a strange email from someone I'd never met . . . asking me about the bag.

She had picked it up in a flea market.

Yeah . . . it still aggravates me.  If someone had done that for me . . . if nothing else . . . I'd a put it away in the attic . . . just so I could honestly tell them I still have it . . . 

May God bless,

Dwight

[Ferg]

Dwight,

Your response stirred my memory. Probably 50 years ago I made wallets for my younger brothers. Couple years ago one of them gave me a plastic bag with a wallet inside. 

When I pulled it out I remembered making it. He asked if I would make him another just like it. Haven't done that yet, must do that before my hands won't allow.

All of my requests for wallets etc. didn't turn out as well as this one.

Ferg

[Retswerb]

19 hours ago, Dwight said:

Yeah . . . it still aggravates me.  If someone had done that for me . . . if nothing else . . . I'd a put it away in the attic . . . just so I could honestly tell them I still have it . . .

I can imagine! Few things worse than feeling that your careful effort on someone’s behalf has been cast aside.

Still... in the end I’d rather someone not burden themselves keeping something unwanted. Better to pass it along to someone who can appreciate it than for it to rot in an attic.

[toxo]

I made a bag as a gift for a young lady who loves Wolves and purple. Magnetic closer as well. OK I'm no artist but....

It came back cos it was the wrong purple.

Edited September 1, 2020 by toxo

[BruceGibson]

Very nice job!