DIY Hip Pack
 

Needed a little pack to carry some crap in. Here's how I did it:

1) Found a little kid's backpack at the thrift store. 25¢.
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2) Cut out a cross shape (with like a 4" body size) out of the canvas.
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3) Cut out another piece (same size) with some liner material from inside the backpack. You could prolly skip this if you wanted to, but I was going for broke.
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4) Sewed it on with white thread for some contrast.
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5) Cut out a piece of leather from some old camera bag that I had salvaged. This is the piece that will attach to my belt so I needed something strong. Anything tough will work I'm sure.
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6) Measured out how long the slits needed to be using my belt as a guide. Cut them and sewed that thing on good.
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7) Sewed on some velcro from an old saddle bag I found in my storeroom and sewed it on nice and tight.
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8) Finally, sewed up the edges with a sloppy zig zag, then stitched the whole thing together (easy) and flipped it right side out. Came out damn good.
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I'm a completely idiot with sewing machines...I don't think I can make a bag like that.
Where are you planing to attach to? belt?

If I attempt, Say good bye too the belt loop. It'll be on my fingers..

That is pretty rad actually! Wanna make me one?

I made a accessory(phone/ipod classic) pouch for my backpack strap out of old tubes and a sewing awl, shall I post pics?

And you did a nice job, I made my own little pack like that but I never got to the belt loop part. Haha. I love tearing up old backpacks and stuff for materials.

that's a good job! I've made little pocket protectors and what not out of old material like that..makes your proud when someone asks" where'd you get that!?"

I wish I was handy with a sewing machine.

pretty cool~ can this hold a ulock? cuz you gotta redesign this to do so if the current design doesnt hold a ulock.
we need more DIY guides like this.

This is very cool. I wish we had a DIY section in this site.

Isn't it funny that all it took to make fannypacks cool again was to shift them slightly to the side. Nicely done!

Just for you, I hopped into my time machine and created one over 3 years ago: http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=259766

(This is in the sticky that no one reads)

This is awesome, and way cooler than paying $55 to seagull for the same deal (though theirs holds a u-lock). I'm totally on board for a DIY section.

This was the first thread I read when I started an account. I'm actually getting ready to polish some drop bars because I re-read it the other day and was inspired by the Cinelli stem. I love that thread.