Children's bum bag, fanny pack or whatever you would like to call it!

This was a weekend sewing project following notification from my son's school that all that children who need certain medicines (inhalers or insulin) should keep it on them at all times and the suggestion was a bum bag.  In order to make it more appealing to wear I took my son to my favourite fabric store, Hometown in Rochester, to allow him to pick out his fabric and with a little guidance to steer away from large prints and light prints he settled on the robots, Makower Fabrics Robots Dark Little Monsters Collection.

The pattern I used was one I found on pinterest from daisyjanie below:

http://daisyjanie.typepad.com/daisyjanie/2011/06/hip-pouch-sew-along-supplies-list.html

The things I would note about this pattern:

1) It does mention using canvas as the lining fabric, I didn't have any so used cotton with interfacing on my lining.

2) It is quite a small bag, I have included a photo with my rotary cutter on it so you can get an idea of size. For me it was nice that it wasn't too big for my son, being only 6 but it only just fitted the medication he needed.

I used some polka dot lining from my stash that my mother-in-law had got from India.

DaisyJanie had included some printable pattern pieces which were very helpful to use.

The pattern gives the option of using either a webbing waist band or making it out of the fabric, I chose to use the fabric made one - hopefully it will withstand the daily use of my son.

Despite my best efforts to get the robots to stand the correct way up on the waist band I lined them up on the backing fabric when attaching them forgetting that I should have really lined them up with the front panel! Sadly I only realised this late in the day when I had lost the will to unpick.

However I did need to unpick parts later as you can see when layering up the pouch to stitch it all together I had forgotten to tuck the straps inside first. Very annoying but I was on a mission to complete it.

Daisy Janie gave thorough instructions with lots of photos, I would be willing to follow another pattern again.

It would be good to see if the pattern could be enlarged easily as I do feel this could be slightly too small for general adult usage.

Anyway, take a look at the finished article below, I hope you like it :)