I got to a point where I started looking around the house for things I needed. My partner didn’t have a toiletries bag since his last one made of PU Leather had finally started falling apart and was flaking. It only made sense to make him one and learn things in the process.
The new challenges I’d face for this were stitching a zip, and making boxed corners. This was also going to take patterning practice.
My initial idea was to line it on the inside with some umbrella material. After trialling it I realised that I was out of my depth, for now, with liners, so I ended up slicking the inside with water and burnishing it to lay the fibres down. I think I also may have used tokonole to slick it down, which is how I learned that when you wet a tokonole-slicked surface, it becomes tacky. It goes away when dry, so I’ll just have to remind my partner to not put wet things inside.
I think I did alright with this one. I’m certain that my next one will be better. I made this bag to fit a long toothbrush in a travel container. That’s the longest thing that will go in here. His cologne bottle is also quite wide, so I needed to make sure it would fit that. The surface was sealed with Resolene, and though I got a little flack for that from some leather working community members, I don’t regret it. This bag will very likely be in wet places, so why not protect the surface.
Build album is here.