Come join Mandy to create a functional AND beautiful Range Backpack using a pattern by popular bag pattern designer Anna Graham of Noodlehead! You'll be so impressed with yourself as you walk away from the last class, packing all your tools into your new backpack. This pattern is impeccably drafted, and will provide you with a pattern that can be customized in a multitude of ways. We will walk through extra hacks, such as adding a zipper top closure, extra interior pockets (a laptop pocket, for example!), and using leather and webbing for different strap options.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Skill requirements:
- Advanced Beginner classes plus several completed items.
- Experience successfully completing several sewing projects. This class will not cover basic sewing machine operations such as threading a needle, switching needles, how to adjust stitch length, locking stitches, reverse stitching, pivoting corners, winding bobbins etc. Students should be capable of performing these procedures without assistance.
Must be aged 16+
In this workshop you will learn:
- How to make a zippered pocket
- How to hack this pattern to add a zipper closure at the top!
- How to make straps; how and where to use webbing
- Ways to use fusible interfacing for stability
- How to turn a bag, and trouble-shoot for precise finishing
- How to install hardware
What We Provide:
- Equipment: sewing machines and all tools
What You Provide:
- Range Backpack PDF Pattern: https://noodle-head.
com/products/range-backpack- pdf-pattern
Materials:
- ¾ metre based on 44”-wide fabric (½ metre if 54”-wide fabric) Exterior Fabric
- 1/4 metre Contrast Bottom Fabric
- 1 ½ metres Lining Fabric (includes exterior closure, straps, and interior pocket)
- 3 ½ metres Fusible Woven Interfacing (Pellon SF101 - 20"-wide)
- 1 yard Medium-Weight Fusible Interfacing (Pellon 809 - 44” wide) * not required if using wax canvas or cork
- (2) 1 ½”-wide rectangle rings & (2) 1 ½”-wide strap sliders
- (1) 8” zipper* for front zippered pocket
- (2) 1"-wide d-rings
- optional: (1) zipper for top closure, approx. 14" long
- optional: 9” length of 1”-wide cotton webbing/leather (replaces Hang Loop cut from Lining fabric)
*PLEASE NOTE: this pattern is written for fixed-length zippers (not zipper by the yard, if using zipper by the yard please add 1.5" to the length of each designated zipper)
* Recommended Fabrics: Waxed canvas (10-12 oz. weight), cork fabric, cotton canvas, cotton/linen canvas, denim for exterior and contrast bottom fabrics. Quilting cotton for lining fabric.
* Additional supplies + tools: matching Polyester thread, water-soluble pen/tailor’s chalk, size 14 or 16 needles.
We offer a 15% student discount on all your supplies for this workshop! You will be sent a code to use online once you've registered for your class!
Bio:
Mandy of @sugarandcandy has been making bags of all kinds for over 15 years! She brings extensive experience in drafting her own patterns, as well as making many other bag designers’ patterns. Having worked with all kinds of mediums and tools, she always comes back to making bags with beautiful textiles on a vintage sewing machine.