DIY leather bag

A leather bag is a convenient stylish accessory for any lover of leather products. Conventional store products are not suitable for those who have the desire to stand out and be different from other people. In this case, sewing saves. Needlework will help to create a unique and unique bag. A choice of skin will give status to its owner.

Before you start work, you must make sure that all the materials are prepared. To create a bag you will need:

• A piece of skin;
• Durable special needles for skin and for sweeping;
• Dratva;
• Ruler;
• Awl;
• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Centimeter;
• Wooden block;
• Clothespins;
• A hammer;
• Wood chip board

Before proceeding to the pattern, you need to determine the size of the bottom of the product, all details will be placed around it. The width of the bottom depends on what you plan to carry in the bag.

At the beginning, a rectangle of the desired size is created below. The panels are fixed on the side. They should be equal in shape and size. Values ​​are added as follows: the width of one side should be equal to the length of the entire product plus half the width of the bottom. Height is determined by needs.

When creating pens, you must remember that the balance of the product depends on them. Therefore, you should correctly place the handles on the sides. For the correct location of the belts, you need to break the upper edge from the side into 3 parts.

Next, you need to indicate the length of the handles. When considering the width of the belt and handles, it should be borne in mind that they must be combined with the product itself.

When building a pattern, do not forget about the seams. Indent for seams. It is necessary to give 1.25 cm for each side of the bottom and side parts. No allowances are required for the top of the sides, because there is nothing to sew on.

Quite often, the size of the skins sold determines the size of the product itself. But still, you need to approach the calculation of the material with complete seriousness and calculate everything accurately. When calculating, do not forget about the details of the bag (pockets, trim elements). Therefore, at first it is worthwhile to lay out all the details of the bag on the skin. Quite often, there are defects on natural material (holes, scuffs, dents). This should also be enough fabric.

On average, for a bag you need 1-1.8 square meters. m of material. All sizes are relative, it is necessary to clearly determine the model and correctly create a bag pattern.

For pens you need strips of leather of the selected length and width, a needle and thread. Fold the straps and begin to sew each other inside out. It is necessary to deviate from the edges by 7 cm, at the end put aside about 7 cm to secure the straps to the bag.

After the work done, start attaching the straps to the product. First, you need to fix the places where the handle will be connected to the bag. Clamp these places with a clothespin. Before sewing, you can glue the handles a little to the bag. Stitches should be sewn twice.

Installing accessories will not only help to decorate the product, but also will allow you to hide minor flaws if they arise. Such decorations will include buttons, buttons, locks, other rivets.

Perfectly complements the leather product with metal fittings. To attach a rivet to the bag you will need glue, glue cloth.

One of the most classic jewelry is a small pen. Such a part can be attached with a small piece of leather sewn to the bag. Make a strip of about 6 cm long from the skin. Fold the line in half and place a ring in the middle inward. Between themselves, the strip can be first glued to glue a little, and then stitched. Fix this decoration on the bag with a sewing machine.

Also on the bottom of the bag or as decoration you can add convex (metallic convex parts).

Such buttons are attached to the product using a special device. At home, you can use an awl, making small holes. Place a convex in them, and spread their legs inside. To do this, a rigid lining must be made at the bottom so that the convexes hold it tightly.

The bag can be decorated not only with accessories, but also with various ornaments, decoupage technique, applique.

Decoupage technique will be an excellent decoration for everyday accessory. For this technology you will need:

• decorative napkin / decoupage card / print on photo paper;
• special glue for decoupage on leather and textiles;
• flat brush;
• fabric contour;
• a piece of chalk;
• wet wipes;
• primer based on white acrylic paint.

First you need to choose a place and a napkin pattern. The color will depend on the color of the bag.

The procedure is simple:

• Make the soil, let it dry a little.
• The second layer is applied in a different color.
• Cut the desired pattern.
• Glue the selected motive to the treated surface.
• To process with glue for skin.
• Let everything dry.
• Iron the drawing through the tracing paper.
• Coat with a layer of vitreous varnish.
• Dry well.

The application on the bag is a fashionable decoration that will make a simple object of a bright object of any image. The application pattern must be selected before sewing the bag. The selected pattern can be manually sewn to the bag.

The choice of leather primarily depends on personal preferences, price, material properties and model of the bag. Softness is found in many types of skin. One of the mildest options is calfskin. It is considered the highest quality and most valuable.

Suede is not only soft, but also very durable. Softness has a like. In general, soft leather materials are particularly elastic and elegant.

Bags made of thick leather are quite heavy, but at the same time they have a high degree of strength and a long service life.Thick material comes out of the calf, buffalo, pork.

Cost-effective options compared to genuine leather are leatherette products. Modern technologies create quite durable leatherette products. In appearance, it is sometimes difficult to determine whether a bag is made of real material or not. Among the advantages of these models can highlight the color scheme. Natural products will not give such a color space. In addition, many designers create such accessories not only high-quality, but also environmentally friendly. However, leatherette is not always strong. In frost, this material may crack, which cannot be said about natural products.

In contrast to leatherette, models from natural material stand up. Such bags add status to their owners. They have a longer service life than leatherette. But bags made of genuine leather always have a high price tag and, unlike artificial models, natural bags are heavy.

The choice of model depends on the purpose for which a bag is purchased or sewn.

For those who often go shopping or are used to carrying a lot of things with them, a shopping bag is needed. Such bags have a wide roomy shape. The undoubted advantage of such models is versatility. They are suitable for any clothes and are ideal for everyday use.

Material depends on personal preference. Most often, shoppers are found in leather and are devoid of lightning.

A bag or sack is a soft bag model, which, thanks to its shape, has excellent capacity. The bags have a round bottom and are closed with braid at the top. Products can be made of cotton, jeans, suede, genuine leather and leatherette.

A waist bag is a wonderful and useful thing for a traveler and an athlete. Due to the fasteners on the belt in such a bag it is convenient to store the necessary valuables. Freedom of hands is one of the main advantages of such a product.

There is a wide selection of bag options. The original sample is a bag made of pieces of leather.

To create such a product you will need:

• Pieces of skin;
• Clay "Moment";
• Sewing machine.

The scale of the product according to the model will be 36x42 cm. The size of each piece is 38x50 cm. There will be 2 of these parts in one color and two in the other. On each side of the part, it will be removed a centimeter to the seams, 5 cm will be required for the hem.

The main assistant at the initial stage will be glue. It is ideal for working with skin. Glue should be applied to the very edge of the part with a thin line. After the glue, you need to grasp and only then can you start sewing. After flashing, lightly tap the seams so that their joints are flat and thin. Then, again, glue through the non-stitched areas and again proceed to the firmware from the outside.

It should look like this:

After the done seams, you must remember to align the details so that the lines are straight.

After all the work done, it is necessary to fold two sheets from the part and sew them, forming a bag.

The handles of the bag are sewn into the fold of the upper part of the bag. These folds are cut with a knife and a handle impregnated with glue is inserted inside. As the glue dries a little, you can hem everything.

For this model you will need lightning and the skin itself (leatherette), as well as the lining.

Sewing laptop bags made of genuine leather consists of the following steps:

• First of all, you need to decide on the size that will fit the laptop computer. It is recommended to use a laptop box to determine the width and length of the material.
• Next, we cut out two parts from the skin according to the pattern shown below, taking into account our parameters. In the first part, on each side it is necessary to retreat 2.5 cm to the seams. The second form will be 1 cm larger than the previous one, since it will be the outer shell;
• As shown in the photo, the edges of the bottom and front must be drawn for rounding.

• Grind the bottom and back half.
• Then we sharpen the front part, laying the folds, as shown in the photo. We cut off the excess.
• We make pens.

• Prepare the zipper. If it is large, then cut off the excess, and melt the edge. On it, you should stitch a piece of skin.
• Stitch the zipper to the slats.
• We proceed to the cutting of parts from the lining fabric (the same pattern) and sew them. For convenience, we make pockets.
• We attach the lining to the strips with a zipper, while the free edge does not fall into the seam.

• We cut out the valve, insert the magnetic button into it and attach it to the bag. Also sew on pens.
• It remains to sew the lining to the leather part and insert the second part of the fastener.

We need tools for tanners, paints, sponges, and the shapes themselves - in this case, bugs (no higher than 2 cm). Of course you need a skin that can be molded.

We draw a pattern on paper.

• We transfer the pattern to the cardboard and outline the location of the beetles on it, which we then glue.
• A large piece of skin is dipped in hot water for several minutes to soften. Then we wipe, lay out on cardboard and form the beetles.
• After drying the product, we cut it, cut out the holes for the pens and glue it on cardboard for rigidity.
• We paint the bugs, then the canvas itself.
• We process the ends.
• We empty the voids in the bugs neatly with polyurethane foam or fill them with sintepon and seal with a cloth.
• We sew the parts and put the accessories.

We offer another model to watch in the next video.

For this type of bag you will need an old skirt, decor, glue, thread, scissors.

The bottom of the skirt needs to be strung out, measure 1.5 centimeters, cut off the excess. For the bottom, you can use linoleum. The bottom should correspond to the bottom of the product. Cut the bottom of the bag out of leather. Pieces of leather should exceed the bottom size by 1.5 cm. For flashing the bottom, you need to sew three sides, 1.5 cm apart from each other. Insert linoleum into the non-stitched one and seal up the rest.

The bottom is sewn to the skirt from the wrong side. The middle of the narrow part of the bottom must be connected with the side seams of the skirt. After equalizing everything and laying a line around the perimeter. After the work done, turn the products to the front side.

Handles can also be made of leather. You can determine the length of your own free will. But do not forget about seam allowances. Each handle must be turned inside out. And stitch, departing from the bend of 0.5 cm, it is better to cut the sections on them 1.5 cm on the inside and stitch them. Handles to the bag are sewn from the wrong side. Seams are laid from the bottom up.

A bag with a zipper is built according to the usual pattern of a standard model. One lightning causes fear in many.

After the lining is cut, the sides are all stitched, there remains one not wired area, which is just necessary for the zipper. The width of this section should be 15-20 cm. To process the zipper you will need 4 slats and 4 edges (2 top, 2 bottom), equal to the width of the bag.

Zipper must be sewn with these pieces of fabric. And to fix the remaining end to the braid of lightning itself. Flash all the details on a typewriter. The resulting structure must be attached to the bag. This process can be performed manually.

We will make an original leather clutch without a pattern and a typewriter, but with an original decor.

We will need beads, an 18x9 foamiran rectangle, of course the skin itself is 20x29 cm in size and a button for the fastener.

• Draw a piece of skin as shown below.
• We put foamiran between 2 leather sheets and glue to the inner sheet.
• We sew the bottom of the button, and we trim the edge and sides with beads.
• Bend the sides below and hem.
• At the end of each sidewall we sew all layers. Close the slice with beads.
• Sew the second part of the button and decorate to your liking.