MBo
Day Walker
This Idea is as great as simple and it's solving a problem I often have during business trips ...
I think I'll sew one too... with a few minor adjustments.
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I think I'll sew one too... with a few minor adjustments.
old-skool-lite
Thru Hiker
I often travel with 1:250K OS maps, A5 Filofax & a Treadlite zipped peg pouch full of pens & highlighters. Planning van trips & where to slot backpacking trips in between.
DesperadoDan
Thru Hiker
One of those, write in the rain notebooks and a double ender....Sharpie.
dueurt
Summit Camper
One obvious flaw in mine is having the stiff section first/inside. Works much better with the stiff section on the outside.This Idea is as great as simple and it's solving a problem I often have during business trips ...
I think I'll sew one too... with a few minor adjustments.
Was just about to move the elastic yesterday, but ran out of threaded bobbins, and the bobbin winder decided it was birds' nest day.
EDIT: Fixed the bobbin winder (or rather, figured out what I was doing wrong
). Started to wind a stack of bobbins, then ran out of thread 
This is the second time I'm spending an evening at home with a sewing project, and no thread to sew it with. Just ordered 10 spools of tera 40, that should keep me going for a while. Quite annoying too, need a rain kilt for this weekend. Probably will have to endure **** wet pants instead.
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Johnny3000
Thru Hiker
A few weeks ago, I built an igloo for my kids to play in. Couldn't resist sleeping in it last night:
old-skool-lite
Thru Hiker
@Johnny3000 Very nice! Been about 15 years since we had enough snow to scrape one together at home. Nowhere near as nice as yours.
Johnny3000
Thru Hiker
That looks great, I like the window!
I used a mould/tool for mine to make it easier, but also had to do a lot of scraping as we didn't have much snow at the time.
This one has approx. 2m interior diameter, fastest I've done it was about 4 hours alone. This year it took longer as it was colder and the snow needed more time to settle. I also made a small mistake and the top turned out a bit asymmetrical. For bigger sizes you'd need 2 persons to do the upper part and to handle the snow logistics while the other one holds and fills the mould.
I used an Icebox Igloo maker tool, got it 2nd hand a few years ago.
Edit: Detaiiled instructions how the Icebox tool works:
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old-skool-lite
Thru Hiker
A convenient bucket of frozen water provided that.
