Material Needed to Make a Backpack

If there is one thing that every kid needs, it is a good backpack. Besides their obvious carrying utility, backpacks are a symbol of status. Many experts have debated about the role of backpacks in the psyche of school children. Some argue that the delineating effect of the status that backpacks bring children is a positive lesson for students about to embark on a life in post-industrial Capitalist America. Others feel that backpacks are nothing more than the archaic advance of the caste system into modern America. Whether you want to make your kid stand out as an exceptional potential cog in the giant class driven wheel of market-driven Fascism in America or use your kid as a statement of the naive Socialist hope of a classless America, a good backpack is an important thing to know how to make.

In this free video series, watch as expert seamstress Vicki Walker teaches how to make a backpack for a child. Learn all the materials and supplies needed, how to cut the different parts, how to pin and sew things together, and how to place fabric around D Ring. Save money for your kid and make them a fashionable backpack that they can show off at school with the help of these step by step tutorials.

"This is Vicki Walker for Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make a backpack that would be suitable for a child or possibly even for a adult. Maybe a purse size backpack that would be appropriate for maybe a college kid. The backpack that I have used for a guide is this one that draws with the cords to close at the top. It has grommets at the bottom but we are going to do something a little bit different. We are going to use what is called a D ring at the bottom and I would show in a future clip how that would be done. Fabric that would be appropriate for this project would be cotton or possible canvas depending on what the purpose of the backpack would be. I'm planning to use this pretty ladybug fabric very colorful and the other choses that might be appropriate would be something like this that would be appropriate for a purse. For a teenager or a adult. This would be a nice little backpack for over night supplies for little girls going off to spin a night or a little boy could also use it. A denim fabric here. Another good chose for a purse fabric would be this animal print. These are the things that you might want to think about before deciding and going any further with your project for making a backpack."