It's the Canada Day long weekend here. Usually we spend this weekend at Trillium War but due to some unforseen circumstances we ended up not going this year. Instead, we stayed home for a stay-cation and I was able to do some leatherworking.
I took my previous design that I'd developed based on the Fries museum purse and took it the next step, adding the pouchlet and draw strings.
As a starting point I used the pouchlet pattern that Mistress Elizabeth provided in her hand out from the Pennsic course she taught last year. The shape doesn't exactly match the picture from the Fries (I think it's more like the other example in Purses in Pieces), but it gave me a good idea of what's involved, since I've never tried doing a pouchlet before.
I think it turned out not bad. I'll need to tweek the shape of the pouchlet a bit. I have an idea of how I can replicate the shape of the pouchlet from the Fries. If that doesn't work, I'll use the pattern from Mistress Elizabeth but may want to make it a bit bigger as right now it wouldn't fit much in it.
Here are the pictures:
Can we see a shot of the bottom?? (yes its Lyda...)
ReplyDeleteI like your colour choices. Did you purchase or dye the leather?
ReplyDeleteThis is just pre-bought modern stuff that I had lying around for my mock-up. I'll be dyeing the final project using period dyes.
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