Gallery of Finished Projects

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Thanks for posting the gloves photo, Lady de Laney!!  They came out wonderful. You need more buttons, let me know and I can send you more.

[Aaroncois]

My finished project is extremely modest in comparison to all of the amazing work in this thread, but here it is just the same:



It's my first hand-sewn leather pouch, made from leather out of a $2.50 scrap bag from Hobby Lobby, plus a couple of pieces of rawhide and the thread that came with my sewing awl.   

It was really just for practice and I gave it, along with the leather pouch kit that it was based on, to my sons. They had previously been pouchless and were quite pleased.

[DonaCatalina]

You deserve all the huzzahs you can get for handsewing leather. 

[Kate XXXXXX]

Indeed.  And we all start with modest and work up...  It looks very nice.

[Lady Rebecca]

My finished cloak.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Everyone, your work is absolutely wonderful.  All of you should be proud.

Lady Rebecca, is that hard to make?  I know I've been saying this for years, but I really want to learn to sew.  And now, a girlfriend has moved to the area whom I haven't seen for over 8 years, and she sews and said she would teach me.  I have a chemise pattern to begin, then I was hoping for another cloak.  My cloak from the VMS is beautiful but I think it's too fancy to wear while in pirate or wench garb, so I'd like another one.

[Lady Rebecca]

It's soooo super easy. I had to round out the shoulders a little more than the pattern said, and I actually shortened the pattern (which is weird, since I always have to lengthen them!) so that it wouldn't drag on the ground. But otherwise, the hardest thing about this is finding a large enough table or space on the floor to cut out the pattern pieces, which are huge.

[sealion]

That cloak looks fabulous!

[Lady L]

I finished sewing/painting the collar and cuffs for Hawthorne Deciduous Oakwood today! The collar I drafted myself. The cuffs are the new Butterick pattern, but I embellished them.
I painted the leaves, then appliqued them onto microsuede, lined with cotton (same fabric as the shirt) The buttons are deer antler. The beads are iridescent purple/green/gold. (woodland elf garb)

[Kate XXXXXX]

Very pretty! 

[sealion]

Oh! Wow! The painted appliqued leaves are beautiful Lady L!

[LadyShadow]

very beautiful.

[Lady Rebecca]

Oh my gosh, that's beautiful! How did you do that?

[Katie Bookwench]

Oh, Holy Moley!! That's just FABULOUS!

You'll turn more than a few heads wearing that. Gorgeous!

[DragonWing]

Wonderful projects everyone.

It only takes a little project to grow into bigger ones. The leather pouch is wonderful.


Love the cloak. great work.

and Lady L  that is just wonderful. the Painted appliques are just gorgeous.