[NFB-Blind-Crafters] Becky needs idea help

[Becky Frankeberger]

I feel like a cow wearing a fanny pack. In my case they call them belly
bags, since I am in a wheelchair. That is though a very good option. Thank
you terry, smile.

 

Becky  

 

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I made a few pouches, in the past, that fit over a belt.  Someone in my
chapter asked me to make him one.  I just gave him the last one I had!

It fits over the belt, but is open at the top!

 

Great for the stream or cell!

 

Have you looked at fanny packs?

 

Terry

 

 

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Tracy, you are awesome to help. 

 

I am getting a new wheelchair. I have an old sell phone pouch I keep my home
phone in, while home, along with little thing: comb, hand wipes, and more
recently chap stick. This pouch is about dead with quite a large hole on the
seam. I guess at one point it slid on a belt, but the sell phone would lay
horizontal on its side. That can't be safe as the Velcro closure is not
strong. So it being vertical on my breaks makes so much more sense. This
pouch is incredibly useful to me. Kevin demanded, rightly,  I have a phone
with me at all times. My home phone slips nicely into the pouch.

 

I want the pouch a bit larger so when out, I can replace  my home phone for
my cell phone in it. Now I found a deck of cards in plastic canvas. It is
the perfect size for the home phone and replaced space for the sell phone.
Four inches wide, the sides are one and a half inches. The base is 4 inches
by one and a half inches. The height is the problem. It needs to be six
inches tall. With a generous flap over to keep my phone dry, and it needs an
extra back to slip the break handle up through to hold the new pouch on the
handle.  

 

Now I thought I would use the plastic canvas playing card holder for now. I
am going to make with yarn a cover. The stiff plastic canvas is great to
hold the yarn and pouch smartly on the break handle.

 

But what could I get or have made that is more water repellant, I live in
the Seattle area. That would be more permanent. Could someone make me a
Black leather or similar pouch? Could someone sew me a pouch with very stiff
material that repels water. Remember it needs an extra back, open on the top
and bottom to slip the break handle through.

 

Do any of you have    ideas to make this pouch better? Do you know anyone
who can make build such a critter for me. They need the tools and love a
challenge. This is a fairly custom idea. 

 

Becky and Holden the golden 

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Hi Becky.

What kind of idea do you have that you want some help with?

Tracy

 

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