The Messenger Bag

This is a messenger bag I made! With uni coming up, I decided to make myself a bag for my new laptop, and for various things I was going to need for school. Its once again made out of denim, but thats about where the similarities end. I machine sewed this one, and it was a really fucking involved process. Teaching myself to sew with a machine was for sure the most difficult part, alongside trying to sew thick denim without realizing I had a bent needle. Credit goes to (NAME REDACTED) for pointing that out and saving me an absolute fuckload of sweat and tears.

The inside of the bag is suprisingly nicer than I was anticipating it would be! I found some buckles, and pressbuttons at an opshop really coincidentally, so I did my best to put them to good use. I had to sew my own straps for the main buckles, so the exterior would all be matching denim, and they've held up pretty well! The bag can also hold a jacket when you use the "lid" and outer buckles to hold it, almost like a bedroll on a hiking pack. The horizontal strap will be explained later.

The outgoing housemates at the sharehouse I moved into left an absolute mountain of trash behind, but as we were filling a skip with it, I noticed a fuckload of old jeans, and salvaged a lot of them. All the material on this project, and the strap were salvaged from that pile of refuse. All in all, I think I spent like.... $3 on materials for this bag.

Its not the largest bag in the world, but it fits a few books, gloves, my laptop, and a few other assorted odds and ends!

Inside the bag there are 2 main pockets, and 2 uhh.. less main pockets? It's made of several different pairs of jeans all cobbled together. I had a spare piece with both the side and butt pocket left usable, and I figured that to represent the medium it's made of better, that I ought to use them. The butt pocket is mostly where I keep my wallet, and the side pocket is really good for keeping smaller objects that may fall out if not kept correctly

This is the laptop pouch! It's a little big for my 14 inch Thinkpad, but it does the trick! It's lined with thicker blue denim, because I had some and thought it looked cool! Protecting the laptop is a bit of a thick foam bathmat that I found in the heap of clothes from the old housemates that I washed and sewed in.

The horizontal strap holds on the pouch! this bag is modular! My next project is going to be making a backpack, that the messenger bag can be attatched to, so I can have a bag, on a bag, on a bag! how neat!!!!!!