I love making things for my kids, but there are about 3 times as many ideas and patterns out there for little girls as there are for little boys. There are more girl fabrics, more girl yarn, more girl everything. And I admit, as a girl, I like this. Sewing up a cute little dress is so straightforward, even if you don’t really have a pattern. However, I have a hard time finding something to make for my son that doesn’t end up girly looking, and while he doesn’t care right now, I do. It just doesn’t seem fair to him. Anyway, here’s my first attempt at a bag for him. He loves to put things in bags so I made this little lined messenger bag out of two fat quarters for him. He picked out the fabric and was excited that I was making something just for him. Dalmatians and cowboys! But it still looks girly to me. Sigh.
You’ll notice there is no flap on this bag, mostly because I wasn’t thinking when I put the lining in (I’m still learning!) but it doesn’t seem to bother him. Its easier to fill with sticks, dirt and stones without a flap anyway.
So it’s not perfect, but it was fast and he seems to like it quite well. And now we have one more place to look for his shoes when we can’t find them.
If you’re worried about it looking girly, just remember one thing. He’s a boy…putting sticks, stones, grass, mud, etc in his bag will certainly make it “manly” soon enough. I mean, what girl carries around “earth” with them in their purse?! ;)I’m impressed you have time for all of it!
Wow, it’s hard to tell in that picture since his head is cut off and there’s not much to scale by, but something about the way he’s carrying that bag makes him look like he’s gotten so big and old!
I love the new look. I keep clicking refresh so I can see the different pictures in the corner. :-)
Maybe it looks a little girly because it’s a man-purse. Not to worry, though, most of the dudes at my yoga studio (the hip one in Manhattan) carry some kind of man-purse instead of a backpack. So I take it back, it doesn’t look a little girly because it’s a man-purse, it looks high fashion. And sophisticated.
Dig the new site design!
Tommy is a trend setter! I dig it too!
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