Pilgrim's bag finished

Last night I started out with cutting the pieces for the bag out of some scrap linen I had lying around. I used one of my other bags as a rough estimate for a good size for it.

Due to being old scrap fabric, it's all horribly wrinkled. I couldn't be bothered with ironing it first.

All the pieces are now put together. Still wrinkly, but looking promising. Next up is decorating it!

All finished! I found some green yarn in the yarn basket (probably the most exciting colour in there... I have to do something about my yarn supply some day). I decided to go for fairly simple decorations, since the bag won't be all that fancy. To make sure the tassels would be the same size, I wound the yarn around my mac remote for each of them, rather than just using my fingers.

And a small closeup of the button closure. I made the braided loop by first attaching three long pieces of yarn to the lid, tying them in place, and then braiding the ends. Once they were long enough, I tied the two braids together to form a loop and cut off the excess.

In conclusion I'm happy with how the bag turned out, being made in a hurry and with nothing but scrap pieces. The shoulder strap is a bit on the wide side. I'll see how it feels after I've used the bag for a bit, and might make changes to it, but for now I'll call the bag finished.

Pilgrims bag

I'll be going to the medieval week in Wisby next week. Today I realised that I won't have a handy way for carrying my things the days I wear an outfit that doesn't easily work together with my belt and bags. So I've decided to correct this, by making myself a pilgrim bag.

From my research, it's basically a shoulder bag of a more or less modern shape. I've chosen a slightly less complicated one, but not overly so, I should be able to put it together from only three pieces.

To make it more interesting, I'm going to add a few tassels, inspired by a number of smaller pouches I've seen and always liked the look of, such as this:

I'll probably stick to putting them only on the bottom of the bag though, mostly for practicality. Instead, I'll have a matching embroidered border along the lid to go with the tassels.

Now to raid the fabric chest in search of scrap to make the bag out of!