Bleedy Fingers

This summer, I took a Fashion Merchandising course in San Francisco. Our final project was to design and market a product. I chose to create a leather camera bag made entirely from an old leather bomber jacket I got at the Goodwill Bins for $2.40. The jacket had a satin-y lining with a map print on it, and the bag was designed for the saavy traveler who found the black nylon bags that many carry their nice cameras in ugly. Anyways, my mommy mailed me the coat then I went to Walgreens to buy a sewing kit for $5 because I left all of my sewing things at home. It was a sunny afternoon, so I sat on the pavement at Union Square for 4 hours. I cut up the coat, measured out pattern pieces so they'd all fit together, then sewed it! It was quite fun, except for the fact that I was hand-sewing through two layers of leather. Hence, the title of this post. I was happy with the result though!