Sewing Adventures – Kit Bags

Kit bags are super simple bags that hold your cycling kit. The Englishman uses them to keep his kit organized so each bag will generally contain knicks, jersey and matching socks. It makes getting ready for a ride easy, because all your things are contained in one place.

His last kit bags were left stained and gross from the smoke, water and ash from the fire. They weren’t coming clean so I decided to make new ones so his kit could be kept nice and clean. The bags were disgusting after the fire but many of his kits managed to survive. Though washing and laundering them to get the mess out but not hurt the special fabrics was a bit of a challenge.

In an effort to use up what we already have I grabbed these cotton bunny fabrics from the stash. Originally purchased to make something for our friend who lives in San Francisco they were still languishing in the stash having survived the fire. It was time to put them to use as I don’t want to have to buy fabrics when I have something useful already (sorry Meg promise to make you something better later).

I had a meter of each fabric. For the grey I folded it half and half again and then put in small snips and tore the fabric along the length. For the white I did the same but in thirds.

Construction is a simple fold over flap closure. The inner opening is turned under by about 2cm and stitched down, then folded inside out and used the overlocker to run up the sides. It was fast and not even totally accurately measured I just kind of went for it. The sides of the top flap were then top stitched under to keep the top looking neat.

2 more fabrics out of the stash and one happy Englishman, winning all round.

Pattern: Kit bags made up as I went along

Fabric: 100% cotton bunny print originally from Spotlight but was part of my stash

Alterations: at some point I should add some Prym snaps to the front closure to help keep them a little more secure.