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Making Vinyl, Plastic, and Rubber Handbags: Sewing Stylish Projects from Unusual Materials

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I would admit the photography is beautiful and the bags are great. There are a couple of messenger bags, a wallet etc. Bags with a lot of potential. However, this book is certainly not for a beginner. The difference in this book vesus the handbag book and leather bags book is that there are several instuctions that do not have accompanying diagrams.

At first I thought I had a bad copy but the other copies I looked at are all the same. The beginning starts of well with each instuction having a diagram but as you continue to flip through and more advance bags are introduced the diagrams are seriously lacking. As a result, if you never made a bag or understand the principles of handbag making and construction-you could end up even more confused by trying to form your own picture of an instuction that isn't there.

I loved this book. I have made a few knitted and crocheted bags but wanted to start to make bags out of unusual materials and this book fit the bill by providing projects made with things like auto tire inner tubes and diamond plate matting. I found that the techniques needed to work with the materials that the project called for.....were fully explained in the beginning of the book. I quickly developed the skills needed to work successfully with these new materials. The styles of the bags were fun and trendy! The gallery really showed even more inspiration for putting my own creative touch to the included patterns.