I am making another handbag. I don’t use existing patterns. It’s like recipes … I have a hard time sticking with them lol. And I enjoy the design aspect of leather crafting. Sometimes it’s really hard for me to figure out how to make a bag, what size and depth especially. Also how it’s best constructed. I often make a small paper mock up (or 7) and then when I figured out how I want to build it I move on to design the pattern in Affinity Designer. This pic is a mock up of the finished design. I don’t always do this but it really helps with sizing of a bag and to eliminate any problems between the parts of the pattern.