Lederhosen bag

Lederhosen bag

I made this bag from a vintage deer-leather Bavarian Lederhosen. I cut the Lederhosen in usable parts and sewed them on a beautiful woollen fabric (some dark green and black woodland fabric). The Lederhosen pockets were still functional; so both outer sides of the bag have these pockets, and one side has also the Lederhosen knife pocket. The sides of the bag are from the woollen fabric and have elastic at the top. The lining is made from a dark green Bavarian Dirndl cotton with pink flowers and has a pocket with a pink zipper. The bag closes with two magnets in the upper stiff border. Four thick dark green antler-like buttons on the bottom serve as bag feet. The handles are black artificial leather straps; when you take them double, you can wear the bag as a handbag; when you pull them high, you can wear the bag as a shoulderbag.
I have the feeling that it is a pretty sturdy bag, but I am going to try it out in the coming weeks :)

Tidbits : Monday Moodboard

Don't know why, but today I am in a pink and green mood.....; great finds from some of our European Street Team members on Etsy.

For more monday moodboards see fleurfatale's blog.

1. gilbea
2. WigArcher
3. fabiusmaximus
4. PrettyThingsFromWing

Tidbits : Flickr Favourites

Today my flickr favourites are about pigs. Was it not for those lovely pink creatures, we would not have an income.... Hubby is travelling again....
For more flickr favourites see ArtMind's blog.

1. possu, 2. halssieraad; PAARLEN EN ZWIJNEN // neckpiece; PINK AND PEARLS, 3. Chanchoche, 4. marimekko pig, 5. Happy Chinese New Year, 6. This Little Pig Went to Paris, 7. Pig, 8. 2 paper pigs, 9. Split pig, Bahamas

Fabrics : Mourning Kraplap

I got a request from a customer on Etsy to make her a kraplap like the one above, but then from fabric and fitting to black clothes. She said: "create your ideal mourning kraplap for me !" after she had read my blogpost about the kraplap. After some searching through my traditional costume books, I got lots of inspiration and made a pattern based on the kraplap from the traditional costume in Staphorst in The Netherlands.
(Mourning Costume, Staphorst - from my postcard collection)

I still had some black and white fabric from Staphorst which is actually used at mourning and decided to sew the kraplap double so that it was wearable on two sides. For the other side I chose a black traditional German fabric with stripes and pink roses, which could be seen as "light mourning".

And this is the result. I like it ! Now I hope the customer likes it too.....

Challenge : Purple

The European Street Team (EST) on Etsy was holding a purple challenge last week. The idea behind it is to stimulate the EST members to be creative in these very quiet summer months... And it worked, lots of beautiful purple items were sent in; you can see them all in our EST blog !

The winner was Nanouke with a beautiful knitted cuff:


I was really inspired by the purple challenge: purple rings, necklace and brooch