Making a new haversack out of some old cloth and leather I had laying around. It's going pretty slow though. Work, Kids, etc.
BPS, ya know what?
It seems, at least to me, that those projects that were seemingly almighty slow and took forever to get done, well those projects turned out, in the end, to be the most treasured, or hardest to get rid of when it came to junk sorting time.....most likely connected to the circumstance surrounding you at the time that was making the project seem so slow.
My own old haversack I made sometime in the early 1970's, and I have owned no fewer than a half-dozen or so since, but that old piece of junk , to someone else, is still around and still collecting dust.
I do still use it once in a great while.
I know I have picked it up
many times thinking, "
why in the world do I hang on to this piece of trash?"
Agonizingly slow sewing by hand, fingers that hurt to the bone, and then have it turn out totally different than what you had in mind, while being ugly as sin, you just can't forget that real easy.
Anyway, made from old "oil cloth" and leather, much as you described, this old bag has carried everything from plunder to bloody squirrels, a few rabbits, and even food for the day during its lifetime....
You would think it would have found its way to the trash years ago, but I guess that that ain't going to happen anytime soon. I'll just leave that little chore for someone else.
Uncle Russ...
