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I hesitated for weeks and weeks about cutting up this particular coat, a stunning Harrods trench coat that was bursting with history, what I loved about this coat was that all down the front button placket were splashes and drips …
I am asked a lot to make a bag suitably sized for laptops, this particular one is large enough for a 15″ laptop. I’ve made dozens of this style of bag but every single one different. I started out by …
I love the leather of this amazing long coat. 
My project was to a make a distressed Messenger leather bag and yes I know it looks like I am making just this style of bag but this one differs from …
This one started out as a particularly grubby Harrods jacket with amazing stitch detailing to the front but over years of wear had gathered some grime. I set about taking apart all the seams and cleaning all the leather up, …
It is always great to catch up with a friend from way back that I’d not heard from for many years , (well not quite the truth as we did text Happy Birthday to each other every December). We had …
The first time I have been asked to make a school book bag, and for my dear friends daughter. The leather book bag for her little girl was a surprise for her 9th Birthday it needed to be tall enough …
When I first started out upcycling coats into bags I was quite rigid on sticking to my basic patterns as I was learning and didn’t want to complicate things.I slowing started to encourage people to offer me their own design …
Upcycled Biker Jacket Holdall
What an absolute delight this one was to make. I had sadly lost contact with this friend a long time ago … 10 years to be precise, I had never given up looking for her. It …