About the project

With this pattern and tutorial you will learn how to sew an everyday backpack with a slightly sporty edge. The backpack has been designed with kids in mind (7+), but it is also suitable as a small backpack for women (may require the extension of shoulder straps).

You can use this pattern as a ready solution or as a base for further sewing experiments. The sewing tutorial shows many interesting techniques, which you can use in other projects.

The backpack features:

• one large zippered compartment
• front zippered pocket
• inner panel with 2 pockets and 2 pen slots
• one discreet zippered pocket on the back
• adjustable, contoured and padded shoulder straps
• comfortable padded handle

The backpack is fully lined. The seam allowances in the main compartment are finished with a binding tape.

Size of a finished product:

• height: 38 cm (15")
• width: 29 cm (10.5")
• depth: about 11.5 cm (4.5")

The pattern is also available in a larger version. The large backpack is not a scaled version of the small backpack, it has different proportions.

Product specification

The product contains:

• 2 PDF files with the pattern (A4 and US letter size)
• 1 PDF file with 27-page instruction of sewing the bag, with a lot of photos and diagrams

Materials needed:

• outer fabric in 2 colors (140 cm / 55" wide):
  • fabric A (top part) - 0,3 mb (0.3 yd)
  • fabric B (bottom part) - 0.45 mb (0.5 yd)
• lining fabric (140 cm / 55" wide): 0.7 mb (28")
• 2 zippers #5 (5 mm) - 1 pc. 73.1 cm (28 3/4") long and 1 pc. 58 cm (22 3/4") long
• zipper #3 (3 mm) - 16 cm (6") long
• webbing 25 mm (1") wide - 1,05 m (42")
• binding tape 25 mm (1") wide - 2.5 m (2 3/4 yd)
• air mesh - 28 x 41 cm (11" x 17")
• 2 bakcpack strap adjusters 25 mm (1") wide
• foam interfacing