Get Outta Dodge...

One of my besties is getting ready to leave for a TWO WEEK vacation!  I am so jealous.  Not just because she is going on a 2-week vaca, but because she is going somewhere WARM and TROPICAL.  Oh, to feel the warm sun on my skin...that would be amazing. 

For her upcoming trip, she commissioned me to make her a new bag (as well as one for her mom and her sister - she's going on a family trip!).  We went on an expedition to the fabric store and she picked out a fun "tropical" material, and I had some fabrics at home that would compliment it.  I got right to work and came up with what we will now call the Get Outta Dodge Travel Satchel - Cruisin' Edition!  How fun!  I can't wait to make more of these with other destination themes....can you imagine the Get Outta Dodge - Sin City or Get Outta Dodge - Up North?  I am already brainstorming the possible material combos! 

Since they are going on a family cruise, I wanted to try to include the following:

• Ability to wear it across the body (SAFETY FIRST!)- but with an adjustable strap
• lightweight
• some sort of closure to the main pocket
• multiple pockets (sunglasses, camera, phone, bottle of water, wallet, etc.)
• possible matching little wallet-ID holder (for that Cruise ID that they make you carry EVERYWHERE)

I wanted to make them all matching, but be different enough that they wouldn't run off with the wrong bag - nothing worse than a menopausal mom ending up with her daughter's tampon stash! 

Here's the finished product - and she LOVED them!  I had a lot of fun with this project and can't wait for more requests!

Front of Bag

button closure to main pocket

large diagonal pocket

two smaller front stripe pockets

all three bags - aqua, green and pink themes
back of aqua bag is shown - one large back pocket

Main middle pocket
I added button-holes to the strap for adjustment



coordinating mini-wallets

My favorite part - I finally got around to making some alphastar labels!

cheers!
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