{"id":386,"date":"2016-08-22T09:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=386"},"modified":"2016-08-23T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T02:21:47","slug":"back-to-school-project-backpack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Back to School Project: Backpack"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a quick-ish back-to-school (is it really back<\/em> for someone who has never gone<\/em> to school?). Anya has been wanting a backpack for school – more because Daniel Tiger has one than any actual need<\/em> for it. We googled toddler backpack and found a really cute owl one from Moda’s BakeShop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Selecting the project took under an hour – Anya likes owls. Finding the pattern, though … that was an embarrassing number of hours over the next two days. I finally ended up on the designer’s Flicker group and found a comment with someone else who totally loved the design and wanted to make it … but couldn’t find the pattern referenced in the tutorial. Answer: if you scroll down to the bottom & open the ‘printer friendly’ version … it’s not just<\/em> a printer-friendly version of the tutorial. It’s got the pattern appended to the end.<\/p>\n

Finding a piping got rather challenging – the site with the best price on the fabrics I wanted had almost no piping. I didn’t want black or white, and I didn’t want to order it from another site (5$ shipping on 3$ worth of piping, not a deal). Checked out the options at JoAnn’s, but didn’t find any I liked there either. Then I found a great tutorial on making your own piping<\/a>, and I’m rather excited to try it. I found a good write-up on using<\/em> piping <\/a>too – hopefully the piping will be a professional looking touch.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a spotted twill fabric for the bag and a pink quilting cotton for the piping.<\/p>\n

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And some cute birds for the laminated interior.<\/p>\n

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I’m not going to make the interior pocket, but I am thinking about lining the front pocket with the laminated fabric. If any crayons\/pens\/etc get tossed in there, they won’t seep through and ruin the bag. Maybe I’m being extra-paranoid, but I just ruined a purse by leaving it in the car … and the handful of crayons that I keep in there melted into the fabric. If I make a three layer owl body – twill & laminate on the front, then another laminate attached to the bag – I’ve got some safety. I am also thinking about adding a little batting to the front twill\/laminate sandwich & stitching some zigzag’s to suggest feathers.<\/p>\n

I am also thinking about embroidering the eyes and beak – saves trying to applique the little pieces onto the face, and I will be able to get a cuter look than if I try to do it in fabric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a quick-ish back-to-school (is it really back for someone who has never gone to school?). Anya has been wanting a backpack for school – more because Daniel Tiger has one than any actual need for it. We googled toddler backpack and found a really cute owl one from Moda’s BakeShop. Selecting the project …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[51,4,8],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-sewing","tag-crafts","tag-sewing-2","tag-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}