If I didn’t do projects at the last minute, I’d never do projects at all
I need a bag with lots of pockets for the fleche I’m riding tomorrow (at 9pm, so you can tell I’ll be at my very best) so I took my big rando bag, which I’d dismantled to correct a few defects (front pocket lid folds back at speed, back pockets tearing apart, top seams had stretched so water got into the bag when it rains) and put it back together, adding a few experimental touches to see how they would work.
I still have to finish taping the body, but that’s only a matter of a hour or so (if I hand-sew; if I machine-sew it’s either 10 minutes or 2-3 hours if I end up messing up the seams) and maybe putting a lining in (20 minutes to sew the lining, another 30 minutes to sew the zipper into the bag) but I really don’t need either of those to be done to use this bag. If worse comes to worse, I can just toss it onto the bicycle with naked seams and deal with it when I get back after my 400km loop tomorrow and saturday.