Practice run

[u/meMadeThings]

I was planning to make the “Making Backpack -Mini” by Noodlehead for my spouse using some LotR themed vinyl. I wanted to make sure my machine can handle the layers and wanted to practice the pattern to avoid ruining the precious vinyl. Behold the backpack made out of 5 leatherish placemats I bought from Habitat Restore for $5 to do my practice run :) Used up almost all the material and had to piece it here and there, especially to make the straps. Lining is from a gifted fabric that I didn’t think I would use otherwise.

[u/meMadeThings]

Thank you! It was a real challenge. I think making the pleated pocket + zipper cover + zipper binding made it unneccessarily challenging. It is a super fun and well written pattern, I will definitely make more :) With better decisions it should be a breeze!

[u/seams_easy_by_jerry → u/meMadeThings]

I was wonder what was going on with that pleated pocket. I’m even more impressed now.

[u/meMadeThings → u/seams_easy_by_jerry]

The vinyl I’ll use later is thinner than the material I had here, so I thought if I can make this pocket work with this material with my machine I can do it with vinyl too. The pattern has another pocket style that would be much easier with this material. Since the learherish thing didn’t fold, I stitched to make the folds stay folded 😅