If you liked making a hipster single speed, MAKE your own messenger bag

MAKE magazine's weekend project is to make a messenger bag with old plastic bags ironed together to make a thicker plastic sheet, then sewn together using a free pattern
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive...bag_out_1.html
MAKE's single speed project from last week discussion
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=310751