Field Bag

At the beginning of the summer, I found these plans for making a field bag. I thought it was such a great idea to have a bag just for a field journal and pencils and little bags for treasures and such on hand and ready to go at all times, and I'm always looking for new ways to repurpose fabric. Here's the result . . .



Since it's for outside use and I don't want to worry about the bag getting muddied up when it's left on the wet ground, I used an old pair of my husband's work jeans. And important thing to note is that if you want to use a 5x7 spiral-bound journal (or anything larger), then an old pair of your kid's pants are probably not big enough for this project. I thought it would be great to use up all those pants that have holes in the knees but won't make a good pair of shorts, but Ella's pants were way too small to fit what we wanted in the bag. I even tried a pair of jeans that are way too small for me post-baby #2, but those didn't cut it either.

I'm sure I could make this a lot cuter, but for now it serves its purpose. Now, if we could just get our butts up and outside . . . it's looking much more promising now that the heat wave has subsided and we heard the mosquito abatement truck passing the other night. Just say "No," to West Nile.