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A good handbag can be sewn from old leather fabric, which will protect objects inside from getting wet (melt snow and rain), and this handbag will look beautiful.
The manufacture of this bag will take you one week, and for its manufacture you will need: brown and black leather fabric, black threads, scissors, zipper, button or button, beads (the color of the beads can be chosen at will), braid and additional decoration in the form of an artificial bow (to hide a button or button).
Starting work, we prepare the materials and tools needed for the first part of the work: threads, scissors, fabric and fastener.

Leather handbag with a zipper


The brown leather fabric is presented in the form of one large oval figure cut into two parts. These two figures need to be sewn with three pieces of black fabric, one of which is made as the bottom, and the other two - side parts. The width of the lower sides of the side parts should match the width of the bottom part, and their upper sides should gradually narrow. If you sew the bag in this way, it will turn out to be more capacious. But first, we need to sew two half oval brown details with a bottom detail:

Leather handbag with a zipper


The bottom part has an additional layer of fabric, making it denser. This is how three stitched parts look on the other side:

Leather handbag with a zipper


Next, we sew the side parts. For the allowance sections of the upper sides of these parts, we will have to sew a zipper, and the allowance sections can be made from a width of 0.5 cm:

Leather handbag with a zipper


Details of the sides we sew with three sides of the future handbag in this way:

Leather handbag with a zipper


We make all the seams on the wrong side of the future handbag. You can make seams with the help of a sewing machine, and if it is not, then you can manually:

Leather handbag with a zipper


At the end of stitching, the craft must be turned out of the wrong side, then sew on top with a zipper, trimmed off the extra piece of brown semicircular leather fabric and left some fabric as an allowance:

Leather handbag with a zipper


To sew the second side of the zipper, it should be unfastened.
After sewing on the zipper on the “front” side, it seems to us to be normally sewn:

Leather handbag with a zipper

Leather handbag with a zipper


Next, we must sheathe the upper oval part - the "cover" crafts braid. The ends of the trimmed braid we singe with a lighter so that it does not "crumble", after which we pin the braid to the middle of the "cap" and sew:

Leather handbag with a zipper

Leather handbag with a zipper


On the back of the purse should meet two seared ends of the tape:

Leather handbag with a zipper


After that, we decided to sew on first a large button on the front of the bag with a small piece of elastic for fastening:

Leather handbag with a zipper


To sew an elastic band, it must be folded in the shape of a loop and make a hole in the section of the fabric of the bag intended for it, through which the ends of the elastic band must be inserted, then hem them from the top, connecting the seams with the outer part of the elastic band (so that it is always directed upwards). Next we need to sew up the hole:

Leather handbag with a zipper


This is how our loop looks from the outside:

Leather handbag with a zipper


Next, we decided to remove the large button and sew in its place an artificial decoration in the form of a bow. The bow will have to hide underneath another, small translucent button.

Leather handbag with a zipper


After that, you need to make a handle for the resulting handbag. For this, a cord from an old coupling can be suitable, for example.

Leather handbag with a zipper


We need to sew it at the ends, also making holes in the fabric of the handbag on the sides:

Leather handbag with a zipper


After sewing, these holes will need to be sewn up:

Leather handbag with a zipper


Next, under a bow-shaped decoration, we sew a translucent button of a small size:

Leather handbag with a zipper


Turning over the craft, we decided to hide the two burnt ends of the braid behind a large button:

Leather handbag with a zipper


Next to the hemmed braid we need to attach bead jewelry.
Entering the black thread, we knit it and string the beads on two threads (for strength):

Leather handbag with a zipper


At the end of each row of beads, we string on one of the threads along a large brown one and tie the threads behind:

Leather handbag with a zipper


After that, everything: our hand-made DIY handbag is ready, and you can use it:

Leather handbag with a zipper


So it looks after filling:

Leather handbag with a zipper


A “double clasp” will protect such a handbag from theft, a long handle will allow it to be worn on the shoulder, and a leather surface will protect it from getting wet.

Sincerely, Vorobyov Dinara.
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