Are we really still talking about Bento bags? I sew for fun, and follow my passions, and my passions took me down this road to follow this project all the way to its natural end. First, I failed to sew test bags following a bad tutorial. Next, I found a better tutorial and make a good, full-sized lunch bag. Then, I took what I had learned and found a way to sew the same bag with one-third the fabric and make it reversible.
Now, finally, I’ve modified the pattern again to include a handle for holding. By warping the shape of the starting triangles to be far wider than they are tall, I gained enough fabric in what used to be the ties, to sew the ends together into a permanent carrying handle.
Traditional tie-top bento bags are adorable, but without a handle there’s no option to carry them on the wrist or shoulder. This bag now has a handle large enough to make it a shoulder bag. However this means that it can no longer be tied at the top. Will this alteration make the bag more or less useful to me in the future?
If I find myself using one bag over the other, I will have my answer, but for now, it’s simply another variation that I had to explore before I could put this bento-bag phase to rest. Speaking of rest, this bag looks cute laid flat, doesn’t it? Thanks for indulging me! You won’t have to read so much about lunch bags on this blog for a while, I promise.
