Karen Gunna FCSCL led a Society workshop on machine-sewing leather on Sunday 11 February 2018 at Focused on Food in Mississauga, on flat-bed walking-foot machines. Beginners made a large unlined hobo bag with two pockets; the intermediate choice was a smaller lined phone pouch with a strap. Karen took the group through zipper installation, patterning, seaming, appliqué, and setting snaps and rivets. The workshop's own flyer, “CSCL Workshops presents Machine Sewn Hand Bags with Karen Gunna FCSCL”, February 11, 2018, in the Society's Document Archive.
A woman in a scarf trims leather pieces at a table during a machine-sewn handbag workshopPaul Kitchener, an unidentified member and Karen Weber (left to right) in the Focused on Food sewing roomSean Dalgetty fixing a sewing machine at the bag-making workshop.Paul Kitchener hard at work.Paul Kitchener, an unidentified member and Karen Weber (left to right) in the Focused on Food sewing roomSean Dalgetty threading a sewing machine.Sean Dalgetty threading a sewing machine.A woman sews a leather piece at an industrial sewing machine with a large handwheelPaul Kitchener and Sean Dalgetty working on a sewing machine repair.Unassembled pieces of the handbag.Two women prepare dark leather handbag pieces together at a cluttered tableSean Dalgetty testing the stitch on a piece of scrapA man prepares leather near an industrial sewing machine at the handbag workshopLauchlan Harrison cutting some pattern pieces for a handbagA woman and a man work together at an industrial sewing machine with thread conesLauchlan Harrison cutting, Karen Weber watchingLauchlan Harrison cutting with a head knifeA woman sews leather at a post-bed sewing machine in the workshopZippers installed on the handbagJim Wilkes using a high post sewing machineA woman sits at an industrial sewing machine, guiding a dark leather bag pieceLauchlan Harrison using sewing machineLooking into a partly sewn black leather bucket bag beside a round card base templateFinished HandbagKim Winchester doing a gusset.Barry Taylor and Karen Weber discussing handbag parts.Jim Wilkes laying out a pattern.A woman threads or prepares a strap by an industrial sewing machineKim Winchester and Karen Weber looking at a handbag detail.Barry Taylor hard at work.A woman traces round a cup onto dark green leather to mark a circular bag baseA woman marks a circle on dark leather with a cup at a cutting table by the sewing machinesJim Wilkes, Paul Kitchener and Sean Dalgetty talking shop.Karen Weber and Barry Taylor discussing bag constructionLauchlan Harrison and another participant sewing handbags
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