WRAP UP Backpack Sew-along Wrap-Up 🎒✨ And that’s a wrap on our Backpack Sew-along! I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who sewed along, watched, cheered, commented, or even just quietly followed the process. This community always blows me away with your creativity, kindness, and excitement. Over...
Week 5: Backpack Assembly Backpack Sewalong: Week 5 — It’s Assembly Time! 🧵🎒 We’ve made it! This week we’re putting it all together. From gussets to zippers to straps, it’s finally time to assemble your backpack and see all your hard work come to life. 🙌 Whether you’ve been sewing right...
Week 4: Handles + Pockets + Zippers This Week in the Backpack Sewalong ✂️🧵 Covering our the Handles (no need to cover your decorative webbing) Adding interfacing and attaching the inner pockets Installing the zipper on the front zipper pocket Attaching the Zipper to the Zipper Strips. Let’s keep those machines humming—can’t wait to see your progress! If...
Week 3: Quilting + Cutting: This Week in the Backpack Sewalong ✂️🧵 We’re diving into quilting and cutting! This week, we’ll be: Quilting and cutting all of our quilted bag pieces Cutting out your accent fabric (don't for get to use your labels provided on the template sheet to help you stay organized!) ONE...
Week 2: Fussy Cutting with @fabricpop If you missed today’s live, I chatted with Christina from Fabric Pop all about the best tools, tips, and fabrics for fussy cutting your own fabric pockets for the Violet and Archie Backpacks! 🎒✨ You won’t want to miss these pro tips for making your backpack...
WEEK 1: Collecting Supplies Welcome to the 2025 Backpack Backpack Sew-along!We’re so excited and grateful to have you sewing along with us as we make The Archie Backpack and The Violet Backpack patterns. This week, we’re focusing on gathering all the supplies you’ll need to make your bag. If you haven’t already grabbed your pattern,...
We had such a great time sewing with you this year in our Patchwork Duffle and Patchwork Duffle Mini sew-along. We added an element of service sewing into the sew-along this year as well but also hosting our first ever "Duffle Drive 25". Sharing all the resources we shared during...
My son Archie is notoriously adventurous. He goes and goes and goes and lives to explore. He always wants to see how far he can push something until it breaks (and it often does). He is fearless and is rarely deterred by silly things like bodily harm. He loves bananas...
Welcome to another Sew-Along! I’m so excited to be sewing another bag with you! The Schedule Collect Supplies Do you have everything you need? I designed the bag to be made with Soft and Stable, but I have seen a couple samples interfaced with SF101 fusible interfacing and then quilted...
