Loved this pattern! Made a few modifications

[subdavis]

I really enjoyed making this bag, thank you for publishing! I'm really happy with the materials I picked, all from Rockywoods (except the pellon)

• Inner structure: Pellon 1/8inch sew-in foam for the body
• Pink body: Cordura 1000D for the outer basket bag
• Liner and collar: Challenge Recycled Bag Cloth (RBC) - Coated 400D Fabric w/ Eco Friendly C0 DWR
• Nexus GTSR Buckles
• 1 Inch Grosgrain Ribbon, Mil-Spec Style 5038

Modifications

The main thing I wanted to clean up was the look of the enclosure. I didn't love how the fabric spiraled around the webbing near the buckle and ran over the side of the basket. I don't expect to overload this thing, so I sacrificed just a bit of the top end capacity to have it fold like a paper bag at the top.

• I left the right and left side un-stitched
• On the left and right, where there's 9 inches of collar at the top, I only gave 7.5 of webbing so that the bag would close properly when almost empty.
• In order to encourage the bag to do the paper-bag fold, I sewed some pinch seams on all 4 edges. I looked at a lot of basket bags and saw this on the wizard works alekazam.

[abroekhof]

Nice improvements! Glad the pattern was useful!

If you have any interest in updating the instructions with your improvements, would be happy to merge them.

[dmenchaca]

@subdavis thanks for sharing your modifications.

When you said:

• On the left and right, where there's 9 inches of collar at the top, I only gave 7.5 of webbing so that the bag would close properly when almost empty.

Do you mean to say that instead of the 14" (14 3/8" counting seam allowance) which was in the original pattern you made your collar only 9" high?

Thanks!

[abroekhof]

@dmenchaca I think @subdavis is talking about the 9" side rather than the height.

[dmenchaca]

@abroekhof yup I see what you mean, thanks!