I've had this faux croc patent red goat leather since the 2011 (or was it 2012?) Aussie PR weekend. We visited NSW leather where I picked this baby up for around $13. Such a bargain! Anyway, it's been sitting in my stash just waiting for the opportunity to be made into something wonderful.
As the goat skin was quite small, I couldn't really make anything big out of it so this bag was ideal. The pattern is Vogue 8867 which is apparently now OOP. I originally wanted to make View C but ended up with a slightly modified version of View B with the shorter flap. I couldn't get all the pieces for View C out of my leather.
A more detailed review is on PR....I described there how I sewed, taped & glued various seams and also how I sourced and attached the gorgeous little push lock. But I will show you a couple of pics.
The first one is modelled by my daughter in a similar pose to the pattern envelope.
Closeup of the gorgeous little push lock
Side view
4 comments:
Your bag is fabulous. I love the color and texture of the skin!
Love your bag. Very vibrant. Great colour.
Great bag - I can't believe how frustratingly close you came to being no 1. - next time! :)
Hi Alison,
Please forgive my leaving this in a comment, I couldn’t find an e-mail address for you. I’m making an index of Australian sewing bloggers, which you can find here: http://iammsfrizzle.blogspot.com/2014/12/sewists-of-australia.html I hope you don’t mind being on it- just let me know if you want to be removed. Thank you!
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