snack backpack

The girl child needed a new bag to take snacks in - her regular one now holds 10 pounds of safety gear, such as a helmet and wrist guards, we force her to wear whenever she wants to ride one of her wheelie things.


I made Smootch a modified version of my toddler backpack, using a zipper from some vinyl packaging a bedspread came in, extra wide single fold bias tape, and some rainbow stripey strapping I found in a thrift store (it was totally a steal too, only a $1.50 and I have some 40 yards left). The backpack fabric is a Free Store find, a Holly Hobbie curtain I've been holding onto for months, waiting for the right project.


To make the backpack, I used the back piece from the original back pack pattern, cut 2, and fused them to medium weight interfacing.

The side strap is two pieces of strapping laid side by side. I put the zipper in,


and then, because the strapping was being so accommodating, sewed together the straps with a zigzag stitch.


The single fold bias tape was sewn to the edges of the strapping, and then to the front and back of the pack. A little loop at the top made from the bias tape ensures that the back pack will hang on a hook nice and flat.



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