Sewing Adventures: Backpack pattern

All right…

I’ve finally taken the plunge and purchased the backpack pattern for my daughter.  I wrote about it in August, in the flurry of back to school activity, my brother and nephew dropping by for the weekend, I completely forgot to place that order. Whoops!

In my initial post, I’d planned on starting this in September, but that didn’t happen. I guess I should have added it to my sewing “to do” list, right?

The pattern has been ordered. The backpack pattern was created by Cindy Taylor Oates and can be found at Amazon and so the next task will be choosing a sturdy fabric for my daughter’s bag. Judging by the backpacks, I think I’ll be making my daughters a bit larger than the largest one featured here. Yes… she carries that many books to school.

I still need to order a few sturdy metal zippers for the bookbag, but I’ll believe I’ll wait and purchase that after we decide on the fabric.

I have thread that I use for basting, but I never purchased “basting thread.” The above cone is 1250 yards and cost a little under $4.00. That’s a great price. I believe it will last me for a long time, don’t you?

Also, I needed colorful thread and so I purchased about 11 cones of sewing thread. The total for all the cone threads, including shipping, cost me $23.05. What a great deal!  Where did I receive these fabulous deals on cone thread? From Wawak, of course. They are based in New York and have been in business for many years.

I don’t purchase spools of thread…

I used to purchase spools of thread, but swapped over to cones shortly after buying my embroidery machines. I haven’t looked back. The cones hold so much more than the little spools of thread that I used to purchase.

Sewing my capsule wardrobe

With all the “side sewing” that I’m doing, it would appear that I have strayed away from my goal of sewing a capsule wardrobe, but I promise you that isn’t the case. Currently, I’m trying to decide what project I want to make next. I still have the ruffled shirt. It’s crazy, because I’m almost there… but I’m stumped at what else I want to add to the shirt. It seems to be missing something.  Sighs… Instead of mulling over that, I think it’s simply best to move on to the next thing, don’t you? Currently, I’m trying to decide whether I should make a pair of pants or a long skirt. Decisions, decisions, decisions…