Leather Hobo Purses Are Posted

I've been working with the leather bags for awhile and finally got them posted on the shop at Etsy. Love the purple. Love the turquoise. The coral leather flower on the turquoise bag just gives it such an added punch but I left the rest simple and unadorned. Purple, green, cognac, and turquoise went on today, in the leather. I made some others that weren't leather and liked enough to post. I have enough leather to make two more hobo bags, another light brown and a dark brown that matches the very first one that I made and kept to use to make sure everything works as it should. I stumbled on the most wonderful sage green with oversized simple flowers piece of tapestry today. I was walking past and it caught my eye and made me stop in my tracks so I had to get it. I will hopefully get a bag made out of that this week. With summer there's so much to do that it isn't always easy to get to the sewing and knitting and wire twisting, as much as I'd like to do it all day long.

I also managed to post several leather coin purses. I really like those. I can usually get one or two at least out of the hide after making the full-size purse. I have more cut out but I am doing the applique with those and that's sort of a bit of a pain in the rear but I like the end result. Stamping turned out to be loads of fun. The ink is for leather so is permanent and non-smearing. Embossing works all right. The embossing ink I got I can't see once I stamp the leather and I think it might have dried up after the initial use even though it's got a cover so I used the leather ink and it worked but I ended up losing some leather I had cut for the coin purses because it made a bit of a mess on some of them. I tried the embossing on scrap and it worked but then when I went to dive right into putting it on the bags a few days after experimenting it didn't work and I had to turn to the leather ink so not happy about wasting those pieces. Leather isn't something I like to waste.