A Quickie

[Jamespio]

Was getting my gear together to go fly fishing tomorrow.  Realized I needed a "holster" for my powdered dry fly floatant.  This was about a 30 minute project with a scrap piece of leather.

Here it is after cutting, gluing, riveting, and stitching.  For stitching I used a royal blue nylon thread. Actually a rod-building thread, but it's UV-resistant, and the color works with my fishing chest pack.

Then decided to use some resolene, for the hell of it.

The resolene was applied with a wool dauber I grabbed off my bench, which had, apparently, beenpreviosuly used with buckskin dye.  So the stitching turnd from royal blue to a greenish tint.  Surprisingly, the color still looks really cool with my Fishpond chest pack.  Here is how the item is used, the little bottle holds a fine white powder that dries flies, which means it is most useful if it is very handy while fishing. This will hang on the outside of the pack so I can unscrew and drop a fly in to dry it.  And, yes, indeed, I will be spending tomorrow throwing dry flies.

[fredk]

Well, thats a nice little quickly made piece