Holiday gifts
That time of the year again and I had planned to make some specific gifts. So I needed some specific leather 😀
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All Italian veg-tan finished leather. Some of it is earmarked for a purse I’ve been prototyping, but the matt emerald green was used to make this Corter Leather pattern bucket bag for my sister:
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And the ocean blue was used for a small backpack along with some nice suede for a friend in the US:
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First time making a strap, that. It’s annoying that I’m still learning stuff quickly – every time I make something like this and look back at it, I see six to ten things I’ve since learned you should do…
Some of the pieces are more rustic though 😀
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That one taught me that Americans have very small beer bottles – the pattern came in two sizes and the standard beer bottle size was smaller than this one and only fitted 300ml bottles, not our 330ml ones.… Read the rest