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    Charlie kraft-tex Backpack Pattern
    Charlie kraft-tex Backpack Pattern
    Charlie kraft-tex Backpack Pattern
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    Charlie kraft-tex Backpack Pattern

    By Gailen Runge

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    Trade in your sad sack for a flashy new backpack in brilliant kraft-tex—the textile that looks like leather but sews like fabric. Weaving kraft-tex into beautifully textured panels, you'll learn advanced bag-making techniques: adding interior and exterior zippered pockets, a cargo pocket, adjustable straps with buckles and eyelets, purse feet, and a swivel hook. The perfect accessory for your backpack, the woven wristlet attaches to the bag, but you'll love to carry it solo!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherC&T Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781617457647
    Charlie kraft-tex Backpack Pattern

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      Charlie kraft-tex Backpack Pattern - Gailen Runge

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      Charlie kraft • tex Backpack

      Finished backpack: 13˝ wide × 14˝ high × 4½˝ deep

      This pattern is all about the preparation, with much of the work done to individual components before final assembly. That makes this a great project to do in stages. (Of course, if you’re impatient like me, you can stitch it all in one sitting.) Once you have the weaving finished, the pockets added to the lining and outside pieces, the straps sewn and trimmed, the buckles placed, and so forth, sewing the backpack together is amazingly quick!

      I’ve given instructions for a few different material options. The main backpack as shown has a woven kraft•tex front. The Greenery and White Charlie backpack has a heavy (eleven-ounce) denim for the other outer material. The Blue Iris and Blue Turquoise Charlie backpack has a lighter-weight (seven-ounce) denim. The Radiant Orchid and Stone Charlie backpack uses suiting-weight fabric. If you are using quilting-weight cottons, I’ve included instructions for additional interfacing to stiffen things up. If you’re using pleather (one of my favorite materials for bags of all kinds!), I’ve given instructions that eliminate seam allowances on the straps and so forth.

      As a bag maker, the single resource that improved my abilities and my final results more than anything else was reading Nicole Mallalieu’s book The Better Bag Maker (by C&T Publishing). What a revelation! I encourage you to check it out.

      MATERIALS

      Yardage includes enough for the wristlet as well as the backpack.

      kraft•tex 1: 1 roll

      kraft•tex 2: 1 roll

      Front fabric (use only if not weaving with kraft•tex): ½ yard or 1 fat quarter

      Back fabric: ⅞ yard

      Lining fabric: 1⅛ yards

      Fusible interfacing (midweight to stiff): 3 yards (I use Pellon 931TD.)

      (When using a lightweight fabric for the back, increase to 3½ yards.)

      Fusible fleece (use only if your exterior is pleather): 3˝ × 28˝

      Base material, such as plastic canvas: 8½˝ × 10⅛˝

      12˝ zipper: 1 for top opening

      7˝ zippers: 3 (1 for exterior pocket, 1 for interior pocket, 1 for wristlet)

      Purse feet: 4

      1˝ buckles: 2

      Small swivel hook: 1

      Eyelets: 10 (with eyelet setter)

      CUTTING

      NOTE

      For a solid front

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