33 years ago, I found myself in a quandary. We were going camping and each of my bambinos needed a 'dilly bag' Australian for 'toiletries bag'.
I went to a discount shop and purchased a yard of very cheap rubber backed curtain fabric and made up rather largish bags with a zip in the top.
A few years ago, one son asked me to repair one and I was surprised he still used it into adulthood. Surely he could afford to buy himself a 'trendy' one.
But no the old one was fixed.
Yesterday, son No 1, asked me to repair his 'dilly bag' Mum, you were away last time, I had to buy a new one but I want this one fixed.
He produced this sad piece of fabric, worn to holes in many places and falling apart.
So I duly washed it this morning, pulled it apart… pulled apart a cushion I didn't like to get the zip and fixed his 'dilly bag'
Dilly bag fixed, and can you believe it… it has 'stop Whaling on it' who would guess Jamie would spend a lot of his adult years doing just that…!!
Now it's ready for its next international trip.
That’s so nice they still have their original Mom-made bags!
Maybe that bag is responsible for everything?
It could be !!!!!!!!
Pam,
Prophetic fabric choice … and the quality must have been great!
Judy B
my daddy used to call those ditty bags…maybe that was a navy term…i like them….
peg in kansas
Prophetic is the word tht came to me also. What choices did you make for the other kids?
I too have made my family these bags – we all still use ours too. I now get orders from my boys for more of them – varying in sizes to fit different things – like their cameras, (I use one for that too) and of course for travelling – our great dilly bags of plastic coated cushion fabrics. My husband and I could remember that fabric you made for your boys!!!!