The Elevenses Pattern provides a great opportunity to flex your creativity. With no worries about choosing a size or getting the right fit, you are free to focus on practicing new skills.
The Learn to Sew a Backpack course includes:
- the Elevenses Backpack PDF sewing pattern
- the Lembas Laptop Sleeve PDF sewing pattern
- 12+ hours of video instruction available forever. Watch and review anytime!
- membership in our supportive course community
- a warm class environment that feels like sewing with friends
Skills and techniques taught:
- Getting into a healthy mindset
- Sourcing bag making supplies
- Working with waxed canvas & other heavy fabrics
- Cutting with ruler & rotary cutter
- Fusing interfacing
- Edgestitching
- Topstitching
- Sewing zippers
- Sewing darts
- Sewing accurate box corners
- Working with a walking foot
- Sourcing and understanding quilting tools and supplies
- Quilting color theory
- Sewing patchwork
- Preparing fabric for quilting, including transferring unique designs to your fabric
- Creative quilting techniques such as:
- quilt-as-you-go
- various machine quilting options
- hand quilting
- and more!
Read more about the Learn to Sew a Backpack course.
Our Learn to Sew Your Clothes learning path means we have the right course for you, wherever you currently are in your sewing journey. We have a whole page with details here.