Bracelet made from old bag leather

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If you have an out-of-use leather bag that you are going to throw away, or some other unnecessary item made of leather or leatherette, you can not throw it away, but use it in needlework, for example, you can make a bracelet out of this item. You can use fairly well-preserved pieces of leather, as well as the handle of a bag. To do this, you need to carefully cut out all the suitable parts of the bag, and make a lace from the handle, cutting off a thin line of leather from it.

1. In addition to pieces of leather and lace, to create a bracelet you will need:
contour acrylic paints on fabric;
scissors (preferably manicure scissors with sharp tips);
ruler, pencil;
a sheet of paper or cardboard;
needle, thread (to match skin color).

2. We begin work by cutting out the blank for the bracelet. Cut a rectangle out of leather measuring 17 cm in length and 8 cm in width. These values are, of course, arbitrary; you can make a bracelet of any size.

3. Stepping back 1 cm from the edge, use scissors to cut holes on both sides for attaching the laces.

4. From the prepared lace, cut off 2 pieces about 15 cm long. By inserting the lace into the hole and bending it 1-2 cm, carefully hem it.

5. Now let's start painting the bracelet.Draw a sketch to create a pattern using, for example, coins. We outline them, placing them in the shape of a flower. We finish drawing some petals. You can draw the entire drawing by hand, as long as the lines are straight and not crooked.

6. Cut out the sketch along the outer contour and apply it to the leather blank exactly in the center.

7. We outline our flower with a series of pink dots, carefully pressing the paper flower. We wait 10-15 minutes until the paint dries, then remove it.

8. Cut out the inner circle - the middle of the flower, place it in the center and trace it in the same way.

9. First we paint the inside with dots. We lay a row of yellow and a row of purple dots.

10. Alternating pink, yellow and purple colors, fill the middle of the flower with rows of dots.

11. Use pink to finish the round petals of the flower.

12. We fill the round petals with the same alternation of rows.

13. We place the points close enough, but at the same time we try to ensure that they do not touch each other.

14. We decorate small petals in the same way.

15. If there are abrasions on a piece of leather cut out for a bracelet, you can place small flowers from the dots of the colors used in their place - the flaws will not be visible.