Making Backpack

Special features:

• front slip pocket
• interior zip pocket
• adjustable shoulder straps
• useful top handles

Skill Level: Advanced Beginner

+ Approx. Finished Dimensions: 11 ½” wide x 15” tall x 5” deep (29 cm x 38 cm x 12 cm)

Materials needed:

Requirements based on 44”-wide fabric.

• 1 m Exterior Fabric
• 1 m Lining Fabric
• 1.8 m Fusible Woven Interfacing (Pellon SF101- 20”-wide)
• 1 m Medium Weight Fusible Interfacing (Pellon 809 – 42”-wide)
•  0.4 m Foam Stabiliser  or  Pellon Flex-Foam)
•  3.8 cm wide rectangle rings
• 2 x 1 ½” (3.8 cm) wide strap sliders
• 1 x 22” (55 cm) zipper for top closure
• 1 x 8” (20 cm) zipper for interior zip pocket
• 1 m of 1” (2.5 cm) wide cotton or poly webbing for top handles
• 2.2 m of 1 ½” (3.8 cm) wide cotton or poly webbing for straps
• 3.2 m straight-grain ½” (12 mm) wide double fold binding

Recommended Fabrics: canvas (7-9 oz. weight) or waxed canvas (10-12 oz. weight) for exterior fabric, quilting cotton for lining fabric

Additional supplies + tools: Polyester thread, water-soluble pen or tailor’s chalk, cutting mat, ruler, rotary cutter, size 90/14 or 100/16 Denim or Microtex needle, (Optional) 2 1/4” wide x 1 ½” tall (5.7 cm x 3.8 cm) piece of leather for patch, (Optional) 2 rivets – 8-9 mm head with 6-8 mm posts (and corresponding setting tool)