Adventures with Leather
I recently bought 4 pieces of leather from Fabworks in Dewsbury (West Yorkshire) for £10. Tonight, after much googling, I found a tutorial on favecrafts to make a leather clutch bag. The instructions were really simple, and I’d made it around an hour. For the lining I used some fabric from my stash which will one day be a frock. So now I have a matching bag for a dress which is not yet in my wardrobe! I was able to use my new roller foot which my lovely sister bought me for my birthday. Here it is in action, and a few more action shots as I worked my way through the tutorial: I cut out the leather then used it as a template to cut out the lining – remembering to have wrong sides together. I used stationary clips to hold the fabric together. Here is the bag before the sides were stitched (above) The instructions for sewing the sides together seemed hard to follow when I initially read them through, but once I started …

