A Unique Haversack

Going through a decade of photos is taking me longer than I thought, and with needing to finish preparing and packing for this weekend's Great Lakes Congress show, I'm not ready to publish the next post.  In the meantime, here is a most unusual haversack.

Remember the crying towel the I found at an antique shop?

After doing some research and discovering that they aren't too rare, I felt comfortable turning this one into a haversack.

In order to preserve certain aspects of the text, I had to cut a much deeper flap than I normally would.

 

And to make sure the jockey caps and crops on the sides didn't disappear, I had to make narrower seams and work around the hem that ran along the perimeter of the entire towel.

The back of the haversack.

The back with the front flap open.

The crying towel haversack sold before I even made it - I mentioned the idea to a hobby friend and she asked if she could buy it.

The crying towel has the same dimensions as the towels I embroider, and that gave me an idea. I may play around and embroider some tea towels and then turn them into haversacks. It would not be cost effective (embroidery work is far more expensive than general sewing), and I'd have to charge more for the haversack so we shall see.

I guess that's a stay 'tooned, right? LOL