How Do You Make A Draw String Back Pack

I made one of these drawstring backpacks for my son later on he'd noticed that kids in our neighborhood were walking to school with backpacks on every morning. If y'all have a toddler in the house, this drawstring backpack is a particularly fun sewing projection that'll become them excited abut starting preschool soon. This project makes the perfect sized haversack for a toddler, or a pocket-sized daypack for an older kid that they can employ to concur ballet gear, shoes, or their lunches. The personalized felt letter on the front makes it particularly fun for toddlers learning their letters as they easily recognize their pack. Plus you'll dear that they kickoff to comport their ain toys and snacks. Who knows—y'all might be able to finally retire your massive diaper bag soon! (Hey, a gal can wish.)

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the letter "H" drawn on a piece of paper on top of red felt, pictured with cutting scissors, clothing pins and a cutting board

Supplies:

Sewing Motorcar
Matching thread
Two 12″ x xiv″ pieces of cotton fabric
Iron on Adhesive
Scattering of pins
Craft felt
2 58" pieces of cording
Safety pin
Scissors
Iron

Use clothes pins to pin the letter to a piece of felt

Stride 1: Attach the iron on adhesive to the dorsum of your piece of felt.

Step 2: Print out a letter on a plain piece of paper, then pivot it to the agglutinative-backed felt.

Footstep 3: Cutting the letter of the alphabet out.

Using a iron over the red felt H to adhere it to the blue and white striped fabric

Step 4: Cut your ii 12 x 14 pieces of fabric.

Stride 5: Remove newspaper from the felt letter and atomic number 26 it onto the middle of one of your pieces.

a close up of the "H" sewn on to the white and blue pinstriped fabric

Step six: Advisedly sew around the shape of the letter with a contrasting color thread and with a long run up length.

A piece of the blue and white pinstriped fabric is laying face down

Footstep 7: On the front piece, printing with your iron ¼ inch effectually three sides, leaving one brusk side raw.

Footstep viii: Sew those three ironed sides down.

Step 9: Repeat with the back slice of the haversack.

rolling up one side of the fabric

Step 10: On both the front and back piece, measure out 2 ½" from the top of the raw side and mark with a pen. Fold down ½ inch, and so printing another ii" to meet that pen marker yous made.

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Footstep xi: Press and sew shut to the border of this seam.

Pace 12: Repeat step 11 on the dorsum piece. Yous've merely fabricated the loops that the cording will slide through to cinch the pack airtight.

the fabric is folded over in half with one end being held up

Step 13: At present take both pieces and lay them correct sides together with pins, making sure to line upwards those loops at the top opening. Sew the two pieces together, five/8", starting correct below the loop on one side and ending right beneath the loop on the other side.

Step 14: Plough the backpack inside out and press it.

using a paper clip to thread the cord through the backpack

All you have left to exercise is thread the cording!

Step fifteen: Adhere a condom pivot to the terminate of i of your two 58" cording pieces. Start on the right side on the acme slice, and thread it towards the left until the cording comes out of the left top piece. (Hang onto the safety pivot as your guide through the hole.) Then thread information technology through the back slice starting at the left side, so you lot end upwardly with the string coming out of the right side of the back piece.

completed backpack pictured from the front

Step xvi: Both ends of your first piece of cording should now hang out of the right side like the in a higher place image. Even them out and tie both pieces together at the cease with a knot.

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Footstep 17: Repeat step 15 with the second piece of cording only offset on the reverse side. Both ends of this second piece of cording should now end up on the left side as shown in the image higher up.

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You're about done!

Stride 18: Turn the pocketbook inside out one more fourth dimension. Unpick a couple stitches in both of those bottom corners. Put both knotted cords within the purse and pull them each through the corner on the aforementioned side.

a close up of the backpack's corner

Footstep 19: Sew together a zig zag sew together diagonally to hold the cord in place. Reinforce information technology several times, then repeat with the second corner.

the homemade blue pinstriped backpack with the felt letter on the front