How to Sew a Purse

Step 1

Sew the metal rings to the main leather pieces by wrapping them in small leather strips and using a saddle stitch to sew them in the prepared spot along the top.

Step 2

Sew leather strips across the leather bottom in the prepared areas.

Step 3

Sew a decorative strip of leather across the bottom of each main piece.

Step 4

Sew up the leather straps by sewing two leather strips around the thick plastic cording that comes in the kit following the directions for which holes to sew up and which to leave unsewn.

Step 5

Sew the unsewn holes of the straps to the main pieces of leather.

Step 6

Sew 2 thin leather strips on either side of one of the main pieces of leather (one behind and one in front of it).

Step 7

Form a tube of leather by connecting the two main strips of leather together, inside out.

Step 8

Sew the bottom onto the tube of leather. To form the piping, sew a strip of leather around some plastic cording between the sides and the bottom of the purse.

Step 9

Flip the purse right-side-out.

Step 10

Sew a decorative strip of leather around the top of the purse to finish it!