The jerkin is just about done, but I took a little break to make myself a pouch. I’ve been wanting one of these ever since I saw Purses in Pieces. I didn’t want to carry around my big pilgrim’s scrip, and I didn’t really have a decent belt pouch. Everything here came from my stash. The outside is leather recycled from a friend’s couch reupholstering project, and the inside is pigskin left over from bookbinding. I have no idea where the buckle came from. The side seams were done on the machine, and the center seam was sewn with a strip of the pigskin. It took me a while to figure out how to get all the holes lined up through all the layers, but then I realized I could clamp it down with some scrap wood. It only took a few hours to put the whole thing together. Of course this is a relatively simple example with no pouchlets, but it should do.
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