#53 judy bookbag

A week ago, I delivered my latest bag, #52 Judy Bookbag. This bag sold to a woman from Texas named Judy at a charity auction that was held at a friend's church. Judy was in town last weekend, so I had a deadline to finish the bag. Because I was rushing to meet this deadline, I didn't take many photos of the process. Fortunately, I took the time to have my friend, Gary Glasser, take photos of the finished product.

This bag has a braided strap that was quite a lot of work. The braid has three sections, each of which is made of two pieces of leather stitched back to back. Because of the complex shape of each of those pieces, each of them took 50 minutes to cut out. Next, 2716 holes were marked and punched out. After hand stitching the sections, they were braided together, and finally, the ends were anchored to the bag. The strap took a total of 22 hours to make. The complete bag has 7311 holes and took 51 hours to make. I'm very pleased with the result.

The strap in progress:



Finished product:





Thanks for checking in,

maureen