Backpack! Backpack!
ByI told Addie a long time ago that I would make her a backpack that was JUST her size. It wasn’t until she started watching a cartoon with a backpack wearing main character that she starting BEGGING me for her bag. Boots, Swiper, Benny the Bull, Map and Dora are very popular names around our house. Addison is absolutely in LOVE with Dora the Explorer and she wanted a purple backpack. What good comes from having a Mommy who makes things if she can’t get a simple purple backpack?
I did not make this pattern myself, I found it on an awesome blog called IndieTutes where I find tons of inspiration. Check it out here for a detailed description and how-to of the “Toddler Backpack”
Want to see my progress? Here are some pics…
Top front and bottom front pattern pieces topstitched and arranged over back pattern piece for proper placement. The pattern instructions call to put the backpack together with interfaced side as the wrong side. I cut an extra piece of each pattern so the interior of the backpack is purple and does not just show the interfacing.
Side loop pattern piece pinned to front panels
Stitching the side pieces to the front pieces…make sure you go slowly and adjust the fabric as you go, fabric backed by interfacing doesn’t cooperate so easily!
The pattern doesn’t call for the straps to be backed by interfacing but I backed both pieces with interfacing to make the a little stiffer…I find they stay on squirmy toddler shoulders more easily.
Here is my happy daughter with her finished backpack before she begged me to put a face on her backpack.
I like to let Addie have a hand in our projects, she’s starting to love making things with Mama!
We cut out white ovals for eyes, black circles for pupils and a red crescent for his mouth. Simple hand stitching around the edges secured the features.
This backpack has not left her back for DAYS. She only takes it off to sleep.
Have fun with this project! As she gets a little older I will make her another, bigger, version with a zipper so she can bring her preschool papers home. Maybe she won’t expect the next one to talk!
