I do on occasion sew something that isn’t a. one of my patterns, b. for one of my girls, or c. crazy comfy Hudson Pants for me (post coming soon on those). Â Dave turned the big four-oh in July and I promised to make him a bag to carry his lunch to work, and the Trail Tote Lunchbag was born!
The base pattern is the Trail Tote by Anna of Noodlehead, a free download from Robert Kaufman. Â The modifications I made were mostly to leave off some of the features – no zippered pocket, and no magnetic snap. Â I also changed the single adjustable strap to two shorter straps based on Hubby’s request. Â I may be adding a tab with some kind of closure, but we’re going to see how it works like this for now.
The outer fabric is some upholstery fabric from Jo-Ann’s I had left over from the riding style jacket I made for Arden way back in Project Run & Play. Â The lining is a fat quarter of Sun Prints by Andover, and the straps are webbing I got from the Ribbon Retreat.
The pattern has two sizes and this is the smaller of the two, chosen purely so I could squeak it out of the fat quarter I had. Â For some reason, I don’t have a huge selection of masculine friendly fabrics in my stash?
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