tutorial: victorian belt pouch

hello everybody, I am making sort of a tutorial again, this time for a victorian inspired belt pouch, which are currently trendy too, but mine will be less trendy but more costumey ^^

So I used three fabrics for the pouch:

1. A base fabric, in my case fake leather, but any stiff fabric will work

2. An outer fabric I used a very thin snake print fabric

3.  A lining fabric

And you´ll also need a sewing maschine and basic sewing supplies like sicssors, neddle, thread... binder clips are very helpful too and you can also decorate the puch with different materials. I used a fancy button, a fabric tube and some studs, which had some quality issues, so they are  not symetrical in my bag, which sucked. ( I fixed it by sewing decorations over the holes, which were left by the studs.

So first for the pattern:

I made a rectangle with the meaurements W:14 cm and L: 16 cm.

The I marked the middle and made a poiny top. with my french curve I made it a bit rounded and added seam allowances

 

After the pattern-making I could start cutting everything out, additionally I cut two small strips, so I can wear it on a belt

The same pieces with the outer and lining fabric, but for the strips I doubled the width.

And I also made a flap by using the same pattern but I made it shorter.

After that I made a tiny bag in the lining, so I can store smaller things. for decoarations I also made a small tube with black polyester fabric.



Then I could start putting all of the pieces together. frist I basted the main Body of te purse together by hand and hemmed the front piece.

And I also hemmed the flap and basted it before.

 I also finished the straps by covering it completely with the brown leather, folding them in half and sewing them closed with a straight stitch



Then I sewed the flap to the back pieces, hemmed the edges of the flap and the body of the bag together and yes I now the stitching isn´t straight...



i finished the bag by sewing the two main pieces together. I did that inside out with  2cm seam allowances, which got trimmed to ca. 1cm and weren´t  finsihed at all.

With that done I could turn the bag inside out, this was a tough work, because my bag was so stiff. but I am happy with the end result.



The two straps get sewn to the back of the purse by hand, you coud use heavy duty thread, I did not.

For fastening the bag I used a silver button, which gets punched into the fabric adn the smaller peice of the black tube, which I sewed onto the flap in a small loop.

I also did some "embroidery" by sewing the longer tube on the bag by hand.



Lastly I added the suds, which was a mistake, because as mentioned above, they fall off and are in the fabric unevenly, but I will  try to fix it by pulling the studs out of the fabric and making more of the tube and sew it on the flap.

Anyway, thanks for reading and have a good day :)