Tag: backpack
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Episode 3: Zip-A-Dee-Do-Da
Hey y’all and welcome to Sewspire! Today we are incorporating the hidden zipper pocket into the exterior of our collaborative patchwork backpack design. Yesterday we assembled the front and rear patchwork panels and finished those with a nice diamond top quilt pattern. You will need 1 of those finished quilted panels, a 6″ x 18″…
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Episode 2: Pick Your Pockets
Hey y’all and welcome to Sewspire! Today we will begin piecing together our patchwork backpack. To begin, I have cut out 70 four inch squares from assorted cotton quilting fabrics. The front and rear panels are each crafted from 25 squares or five rows of five. Our focus in this video is to create the…
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Episode 1: My New Year Resolution
Hey y’all and welcome to Sewspire! To kick off 2017, we’ll be designing and sewing a patchwork backpack. I am not sure how many videos this project will take as we will be working on the bag in short daily episodes. As the project takes form I will be incorporating your requests into the design…so,…