I really enjoy making bags, as evidenced here, here and here. There is such satisfaction from making something that is not only cute to look at but also highly practical and useful.
Despite my professed bag-love, I’d only ever made bags for adults. I just never thought about making a bag for a child – my own child! In retrospect it is so short-sighted of me not to realize how much Eli would appreciate having his very own bag. After all, he’s all about labeling items “mine”, and the closer his sister crawls to such items the louder and more fervently he declares his sole and exclusive rights to such property. Kind of like a mini-monarch; all that he sees before him is his. And a bag is essentially a place for safeguarding all of his special possessions, and allows for easy carting from place to place.
The intention behind making him a bag was actually not to bolster his belief that he can claim ownership to various toys and knick-knacks simply by saying so and tucking them out of sight of his sister. Rather, it was intended as a travel distraction device — and it worked beautifully!
As the departure date for our vacation neared, I was dreading how the flight would go. I envisioned my son, with ants in his pants in the face of this new adventure, refusing to sit still for a moment (more likely bouncing in his seat), and irritating other passengers with his endless curiosity (roughly translated as asking 50 questions per minute, 75% of which are duplicate questions).
Spurred on by seasoned parent travelers, I decided to go the route of bribery, which is beginning to feel like a well-worn path lately. I had stocked up with a few small toys (a la Target dollar bins) and treats and was intending to dole them out during the course of the flight as a means of thwarting any out of control behavior (i.e., no whining/yelling/kicking/harming flight attendants/getting us kicked off the plane = a reward earned). But instead, a short while after take-off, I pulled this little bag out of my carry-on bag and waited for his reaction. It took all of about .0346 seconds before he spied the dinosaur emblazoned object in my lap. When I explained it was something I made for him, and that the bag and its contents were just for him, he was ecstatic. And grateful — he must have told me “thank you” ten times during the flight. This kid really knows how to keep me sewing for him; he gets so darn excited each time I present him with something new.
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He was a content flyer digging for treasures in his bag, zipping and unzipping it to re-check the contents. It was all quite cute. He was happy, and since tantrums were averted and we weren’t the subject of a travel advisory, I was happy, too.
I made the bag using the open wide zippered pouch tutorial from Noodlehead. It has great details like the topstitching around the zipper opening and adding the zipper tab. The fabrics I chose are from Michael Miller (exterior, interior and zipper tab).
I liked working with the pattern so much I made the same bag for my son to bring as a gift for a special girl’s birthday party. Here it is decked out in pink (Michael Miller fabrics, again):
This bag-making got me thinking I need a new bag of my own. Noodlehead has a bunch of great bag patterns in her shop. I purchased the Go Anywhere Bag Pattern. I have a number of projects on the list before that one, but I already have fabric choices swirling in my head…