cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28295400, thought this community could also use a little more activity!
I've had a bit of a hiatus in my leathercrafting recently. I designed this bag back at the end of May and quickly cut out the pieces, attached lining leather etc. then I just stalled for over a month. I got rather disallusioned with my design and the thickness of the leather (especially once lined) and was thinking it just wasn't going to go together properly and wouldn't work. I have a fairly limited number of larger leather panels so I was a bit depressed I had just wasted some.
And so it sat there, cut out but not in any way assembled for over a month. Until the weekend where I finally got some motivation. I had cut my dry spell short the week before by making some little trinkets for a gift (a simple passport cover and a little bookmark) and thought this was the time to get back on this horse too.
Some of my original fears did come to light, I had real issues skiving some of the leather at the join (the front and rear are separare pieces), I need a better skiving tool really and the lining and glue didn't help matters (I should have left a portion unlined). The leather also didn't shape to the gusset I made quite right either, I definitely need to learn how to properly measure for a gusset.
Desipite all those issues I'm actually quite happy with it. The overall shape and design is quite pleasing, the colours worked far better than I thought they would and I like not only the colour contrast but there is a texture difference between the red and blue leathers.
So yeah, really happy I finished this project, it was by far the most longest and most laborious project I've done so far and I've learnt a lot of stuff to apply to future designs.
