After familiarizing yourself with how to sew a leather bag, organizer for documents, wallet, holder for headphones, ballet flats, jewelry from this material, you can create these designer items with your own hands. Artificial and natural leather is a beautiful and practical material. Many useful things can be sewn from it. Even if you have small flaps, assembling them, you can sew a bag out of leather, as well as create a wallet, a cosmetic bag and many other items from this material with your own hands.
How to sew a set from leather?
If you have small pieces of this material, you can turn them into practical things that make an interesting kit. This master class will clearly explain how to sew a bag in the shape of a fish out of leather, a holder for wires and headphones, light ballet flats, a case for glasses.
First you need to make things that require more material, and then you can already move on to those that can be created from the remnants of the skin.
How to sew a leather bag?
To sew a bag in the shape of a fish, you first need to redraw the image, which will help you make a pattern.
Now you have an idea of how many parts this reticule consists of. You will need a pattern for each part, they are given below.
It will be enough to attach each pattern to a piece of leather of the corresponding color and cut it out with a seam allowance.
If your starting material is as thin as in this case, then also seal it with an adhesive doublerin. To do this, fold the two materials together and iron on the side of the dublein.
Put the iron on the "cotton" mode, and in no case turn on the steam function, otherwise the workpiece may stretch and lose its desired shape.
Where the seams will pass, you need to cut off the doublerin so that later these blanks can be easily turned out and not puffed up. The top of the fins should be placed on the skin and sewn around the perimeter. The blue skin has a white end, you need to paint it over with this paint. Use a water-based acrylic that adheres well and is water resistant after dry. So that the surface of the future handbag is smooth, and this end of the skin does not get wet, lubricate it with CMC powder diluted in water.
Let the paint on the fins dry while you sew the fish's head. Sew the parts together and add decorative stitching to the right and left seams on the right side. Of course, you first need to iron the fabric on one and the other side of this seam.
Here's how to sew a leather bag further, for which you translated and cut out the patterns with your own hands. Now stitch the fins to the top of the fish and sew the back details together.
Use an anvil or similar object to smooth a bulky seam. Put the workpiece on it with the seam up and knock on it. Now you can turn this piece right out and decorate the seam with two parallel decorative stitches.
Now you need to sew on the zipper. You can use the same color as the head or other parts of the fish's body.
If you will be using a pad, attach it to the wrong side of the blanks. Note that seam allowances need to be cut after sewing. Then the finished product will not puff up and it will be easier to turn it out on the front side.
Turn the bag inside out and gently tap the seam with a mallet to smooth it out. Now add decorative stitches.
Sew buttons instead of eyes, or attach buttons using a special tool.
Connect the center of the backrest with the inside of the head, turn the workpiece out onto the front side. Sew the rest of the details. Do the same with the second part of the fish.
Connect these two parts by attaching them to each other with the right sides and sew.
Now you can put the slider on the split zipper and fix it.
After you turn the bag out of leather, you will need to complete its creation. To do this, cut out such straps from yellow leather. One will come in handy in order to carry the bag in hand, the second in order to put it over your shoulder. Sew metal fittings to these elements and to those on the bag to which they will be attached.
Use a blind stitch to sew the lining to the zipper on your arms.
All that remains is to put on the straps on the bag, after which you can surprise your friends and others with such a fashionable accessory.
DIY shoes
Such a handbag will look wonderful and blend in with light ballet flats. See how to sew shoes with your own hands.
First, redraw the pattern presented. It is designed for size 38. Consists of two sheets.
Transfer them to paper and cut them out. Now connect the details of the shoes made of this material to see if these ballet flats will be right for you. If only a little does not work, then make adjustments to the pattern at this stage.
Place it on the prepared skin, outline and trim. Also, don't forget to cut out the insoles.
Place them inside the ballerinas by gluing to them. When the glue dries, then sew on a typewriter. To then keep the sandals well on your feet, make 2 cuts on the strap.
Cut small rectangles from the double-sided tape and glue them to the wrong side of the shoe strips. Now you can attach these parts, and then sew them.
Here's how to make sandals out of leather further. Decorate them with cuts of blue material to match the created handbag. These decorative inserts will at the same time remove the joints of the straps with the toe of the shoes.
Cut out the soles from thick rubber by attaching a pattern to these blanks. It can be made on the basis of other shoes that fit you. You also need to glue small heels to the back of the sole.
It remains to glue the sole to the shoes and wait for the glue to dry, then to flaunt in this new thing.
Here's what it took you to make your own leather shoes:
- artificial leather flap;
- scissors;
- clerical or construction knife;
- Double-sided tape;
- glue for leather;
- threads;
- a needle;
- sewing machine;
- rubber for soles and heels.
You will probably have some skin scraps that you can turn into a spectacle case. If you don't wear regular ones, it comes in handy for sunbathing.
Glasses case
Redraw the pattern shown in the photo below.
Place the pattern on the material, cut it out. It is most convenient to close the case with a button. But then you need a special device to attach it to the skin. Stitch the workpiece along a straight edge. Also sew on the opposite rounded side. Fold the workpiece almost in half and glue or sew the sides.
It remains to tie the ends of the threads so that the stitch does not unravel. Hide the knots and admire what a beautiful DIY glasses case you have.
How to make a holder?
You will create a headphone device from a very small piece of cloth. Then you won't have any more tangled wires if you take them with you.
This piece will also continue the "fish theme", so the pattern is made in the form of a fish skeleton. Attach it to the back of the skin and outline. In total, you need two such parts. Sew them together, but leave one centimeter not sewn on both sides. These holes are there for you to pass the wires through.
Here's what a great kit you get.
If you do not want to have a set, then you can create a roomy reticule.
How to sew a leather bag with your own hands?
The size of the finished bag is 42 by 36 cm. It consists of two parts that must first be cut out. They will turn out like this.
Each of them is 50 by 38 cm in size. Leave one centimeter on the seams, and add 5 cm on top of the hem. The bottom corners of these triangles should be rounded. To do this, take a regular roll of scotch tape, attach it here and outline.
Then you will need to mark the darts so that the bag will acquire volume. These angles are 45 degrees.
The length of the dart is 3 cm. Take the Moment glue and attach the dart with it. After that, let the solution dry and you can sew in this place. Then, using the same glue, connect the parts if your bag also consists of four rectangles.
When the glue is dry, sew over these areas, then tap with a mallet to smooth the leather at the seams.
Apply some Moment glue to the back of the allowances and fix them in a horizontal position.
Now you will need to make decorative stitches along the main seams.
Speaking about how to make a bag with your own hands, it should be noted that it is necessary to periodically apply a ruler to the perimeter and align, cutting off the excess.
According to the size of the sewn bag, you need to cut out the lining. If you are going to make a knapsack with a pocket, then you need to make this part from the lining fabric.
Place two details for the pocket to one and the other half of the bag and sew, joining them together with a seam.
Then you will need to sew on a typewriter, at the same time sewing a zipper on the pocket.
Sew the lining with the pocket to the size of the bag.
Now you need to make the handles.
To remove excess thickness of the handles, peel off some of the suede from the inside with a sharp blade.
Fold each handle in half across, sew on the wrong side. Then turn it right out. Delay the edges of the handles.
If you have previously sewed the lining on top of the bag, then carefully cut at the top, insert the handle here and sew.
If not, then thread the edges of the handle between the lining and the leather, then topstitch.
If your sewing machine cannot handle this thickness, then attach the handles in one of the following ways.
Now you have an idea of how to sew a bag with your own hands. Therefore, you will be able to cope with the creation of the next product.
How to make an organizer for documents?
You can create it to fit your documents and the thickness you want.
To sew such a purse from leather, you will need:
- paper;
- pencil;
- ruler;
- cardboard;
- awl;
- mallet;
- punch on the skin;
- wax;
- knife;
- waxed threads;
- Genuine Leather;
- needles for working with leather.
You can use the presented pattern or create your own according to the size of your documents.
First draw the pattern on paper, then transfer it to the cardboard. Now you can cut out the elements of the purse from the leather.
Use a sharp knife to round the corners carefully. Now you need to create uniform holes on those parts of the wallet that you will sew together. This can be done with an awl or a special tool.
To make the holes at the same distance from the edge and from each other, it is better to first make them in a cardboard template, and only then apply it to the leather elements and make holes.
Now fold the details. Before that, you got one large rectangular, one small rectangular, which will be on the left, and another small rectangular part, the large side of which is notched at an angle. These parts are located on the right. Match these elements and sew them on your hands.
Now you can fold the wallet in half and beat it with a mallet in place of the fold to give the desired shape. After that, you can put documents in the pockets so that you can carry them with you.
Of course, money also needs to be hidden somewhere. For them, you can create a beautiful wallet, which you will sew from leftover leather so that it is in harmony with the rest of the products. If you wish, make a two-in-one fixture.
How to sew a leather wallet - master class
First, you will need to cut a rectangle out of cardboard to understand what size the wallet will be. Fold this template in half and see what the wallet will look like. If the size suits, then proceed to cutting out smaller details. They are shown in the following photo.
Now make holes with a punch or awl that will help to sew the parts. Start with a pocket to store your change, and a flap to help close a leather wallet. Sew the listed parts along these holes.
Now you need to sew on the pockets where you will fold the cards.
Using the pre-drilled holes, sew on the inside of the wallet from the front.
Make a button to it and you can use the thing for its intended purpose.
Leather jewelry
With a real hostess, even small rags will be used. Make jewelry for your daughter out of them. She will be delighted with the hair clip and ring.
To craft them, take:
- small pieces of skin;
- glue for leather;
- scissors;
- a candle;
- hair clip;
- if there is, then a punch.
Using a printer, translate the presented pattern for the hairpin and ring.
First, cut it out of paper, and then attach this template to the skin and cut out the details from it.
With the help of punches, you need to make holes in various places. If there is no such tool, do it gently with nail scissors. Use them to make larger holes in the finger ring.
Use a sharp knife to carefully cut the holes in the large petals.
To make the flowers with concave petals, hold each piece slightly above the candle flame. Glue a small flower on the back of the ring. Make two cuts in the other small flower. Insert a hairpin here and glue this blank with the right side to the wrong side of the barrette blank.
Thread each small petal through the cut on the corresponding large petal.
This is how leather jewelry looks wonderful from the front and back side. If it seems to you that there are not enough holes along the edges of the petals, make them. And if you want to see for yourself how you can make amazing things out of leather, then sit back and watch the fascinating processes.
If you are interested in how to sew a leather bag, then take a closer look at the intricacies of the first plot. You can create a handbag from an old leather coat, just like the heroine of the video.
And make leather jewelry from the remnants of this material.
