Messenger Bags

So messenger bags are one of my favorite things to make, they are fairly easy and totally useful(to know how useful here's a history of messenger bags).

Today I made made one out of an old pair of blue jeans and fully lined it with rainbow sheets. It's my favorite project to-date, I'm so proud of it! (His name is charlie :) )

From the front ^

From the side^ (the other side has a camouflage panel)

Very brightly colored rainbow lining^

Pocket sewn into the lining^

The strap is the hem of the sheet sewn into a strip of denim.

Messenger Bag Tutorials

So I pretty much make my own pattern as I go every time I make a messenger bag, but i know not everyone knows the basic messenger bag shape, size and how to put it all together. So here's five different tutorials for five different messenger bags:

Here's how to make a duct tape messenger bag.

Here's how to make a very nice lined messenger bag.

A messenger bag out of fused plastic bags (and how to fuse the plastic bags!)

A reversible messenger bag.

A little kids messenger bag.

And just so you know, I did not make any of these tutorials nor do I take any credit for them, I'm just showing them to you.

Hopefully I helped!

~Courtney