Adventures in Leather

No not the kinky kind of adventures in leather, the making kind of adventures in leather!

Last week a local business man left me a gift of leather off cuts from his upholstery business in town.  A lovely bag full of 16 different cuts of leather – doesn’t leather just smell so lovely?

Anyway, after a week of worrying about how to work with leather I finally took the plunge today and thought I would share the results of all my hard wok today (believe me it has been hard work trying to get it right!).

As you can see I have worked the leather into a base for the fabric bag.

The leather was very easy to sew to the fabric, though the curved corners were tricky.

Of course my FDD label has to go into the side seam!

And the bag is big enough to fit everything a girl could possibly need!

It has a zippered pocket and a open fabric pocket, as well as a swivel snap for keeping your keys safe!

I hope you like it!

It will be making an appearance in my Etsy shop as soon as I have measured it and I think I will be making many more!