Women Crossbody Leather Bag (with PDF Pattern)

Link to the PDF pattern
✺ https://bit.ly/3ggfhsk
✺ https://etsy.me/39DNQGo

This is a detailed tutorial for making a women crossbody leather bag for everyday use.

The inside of the bag has an inside pocket slip, it is spacious and can accommodate a everyday essentials: a phone, a notebook, make-up, keys etc. It has an adjustable strap and an additional pocket on the front of the bag.

This is one of V&P Leather Artisans classic designs, perfected over many years.

Dimensions:
✪ 22/17/7+2 cm (2 cm is the front pocket) or 8.7/6.7/2.8+0.8 inch (0.8 inch is the front pocket)

Materials:
✪ BODY: 0.5 sqm 1.2-1.4 mm vegetable tanned leather
✪ LINING: 0.8 mm pigskin and shoe stiffener (is called PITEX in Romania)
✪ STRAPS: 1.2-1.4 mm vegetable tanned leather doubled with 1.4 mm suede
✪ 1 mm waxed thread
✪ edge painting

Accessories
✪ 2 X 20 mm D-rings
✪ 1 x 20 mm buckles
✪ 1 x 25 mm buckles
✪ 1 X 18 mm round magnet snap

Tools & Equipment:
✪ 18 mm Olfa cutter
✪ 1.5 mm hole puncher
✪ John James stitching needles
✪ rubber mallet
✪ cutting pad
✪ masking tape
✪ a good glue, preferably cement glue

✺ PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS HERE:
https://youtu.be/fNxdZRaUzXk

0:00 Intro
0:14 Cutting the pattern on leather
9:04 Introducing a new stitching technique
11:30 Sewing & assembling
14:50 Making the accessories
15:35 Finishing the edges
15:55 Installing the magnet snap buckle closing system
18:05 Making the straps
19:25 The finished bag!

Enjoy!

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Music:
1. J S Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 - Allegro moderato
2. G.PH. Telemann: Concerto for Mandolin, Hammered Dulcimer and Harp in F major TWV 53F1
3. J P Lully: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670) - Chaconne des Scaramouches, Frivelins et Arlequins

Photo credits: Răzvan Ioniță

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