How To Create A Chalk Bag Out Of A Stuffed Animal Backpack

Hey everyone! You know that I always love it when people do projects that are great for footling girls, considering I have no fiddling girls in my life! (Well, except ii nieces. But they are counteracted by five nephews.) Anyway, this baby doll carrier and backpack tutorial from Paola at Sweetness Julie Boutique is SO perfect for a cute little girl to bear her dolls. At present, I'm no dummy! I know that it can also be used for boys! My little guys would love to throw a stuffed beast in there and acquit it around.

Babe Doll Carrier and Backpack Tutorial

Here's Paola!

I'thou so happy to get a new project for you, this doll backpack and carrier is perfect for your little i's dolls (and it fits Fragmentary Babies too!) My little one is obsessed with playing mommy so she takes her babies everywhere. This carrier is perfect since it helps her not just to behave the babies merely likewise take their baby essentials along the way. Are yous ready to become your daughter's favorite person?

Supplies Needed:

i 36″ attachment
2″ of velcro
2 yards of cotton webbing
1 grand of material for main/outside
1 yard of fabric for lining
1 yard fusible fleece
i small piece of net cloth (at to the lowest degree xviii″Wx 7″) for pocket if desired.
ane package of double fold bias tape
ii strap ladders
Design for backpack and carrier piece Here

Cut the post-obit pieces:

Cut pattern pieces as instructed in the pattern pieces
Cutting 2 pieces of velcro 3/4″ each
Cut 2 pieces of cotton fiber webbing 15″ each
Cut two pieces of cotton webbing viii″ each
Cut 1 piece of cotton webbing half dozen″ (optional)
Cutting 2 pieces 3″W x 11″L each for carrier straps
Cutting 2 pieces of main fabric 3″W X 36″L
Cut 2 pieces of lining material 3″Due west 10 36″L
Cut two pieces 3″W X sixteen″ L : 1 Principal fabric, 1 lining fabric
Cut 1 piece 3″Westward X 14″Fifty of fusible fleece

ALL SEAM ALLOWANCES ARE ane/2″ UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

Step one:

Adhere one side of 3/4″ velcro piece (it doesn't affair if it's the hook or loop side) to

lining

of carrier piece, 1 inch downwardly from the pinnacle, 2.5 inches from each side. Identify wrong sides together with principal carrier piece, pin and drip.

Stride ii:

Utilize bias record to leg openings and top side. Finish bottom with a serger or zig-zag stitch. Fold the bottom 3/eight″ towards the lining side and press to set.

Step 3:

Fold your 3″ x 11″ pieces right sides together, along the long side and press. Run up along the long side and 1 of the short sides. clip the corner, being conscientious not to cutting through the stitching.

Step 4:

Turn your strap pieces over, press and topstitch. Apply velcro 1/ii″ from the lesser. Employ fusible fleece to the back of the main backpack piece. Fold the piece in half along the long side, wrong sides together. Practise the same with the carrier piece. Press. This will assist center the carrier piece onto the front haversack piece.

Step 5:

Identify the carrier piece on peak of master backpack piece. The top of the carrier slice should exist placed 8 inches from the lesser. Pin and repeat on each side. Center the carrier piece, aligning with the press mark we made on the previous pace. Pin. Place strap pieces, with velcro side upward, ii.5″ from each side. Pin. Now sew where you pinned, with a one/4″ seam allowance. The carrier part should bulge a little bit, to make room for the doll.

Step 6:

If you want to add together an within pocket, you lot can utilize a 18″ West 10 vii″ L piece of cyberspace or fabric. Cut 2 pieces of double fold bias tape the width of the backpack slice. Gather the net or fabric to the width of your bias tape, adhere to the bias record and stitch along the sides and bottom of the lining piece. Now place the master backpack front slice on peak of the lining slice, wrong sides together, pivot and baste with 1/4″ seam allowance.

Stride 7:

Grab your 3″x16″ pieces and fold 1″ to the incorrect side of fabric on each 1 of them (principal and lining pieces). Employ fusible fleece to main piece, from i fold line to the other (the fusible fleece piece is 14″x3″). On the lining piece, fold ane of the long sides 3/eight″ to the wrong side.

Step 8:

Apply fusible fleece to the wrong side of the remaining chief backpack piece (back) and pivot straps 3″ from each side. You could likewise employ a 6″ slice of cotton webbing and create a loop in the center to hang. Utilize the bottom pieces of webbing 1″ from the bottom and at an angle. Sew with 1/4″ seam allowance.

Step 9:

Grab your 3″ ten 37″ pieces and printing along one of the long edges of each, 1/2″ to the wrong side. This volition create a retentiveness press and make attaching the attachment easier.

Step 10:

Pin one of your 3″ x 37″ pieces 1 one/two″ from the pinnacle of the front backpack piece. Y'all will also take hold of a lining piece and pivot right sides together to the lining. The main backpack piece will be sandwiched between the main and lining pieces. Pin along the side of the piece that was not pressed to the wrong side (stride 9). Pivot around the main piece and sew with 1/2″ seam assart. Repeat with dorsum piece. Make certain to start to the right of the front piece and to the left of the back piece, then both pieces match when joined subsequently.

Stride eleven:

Attach the attachment. You lot can either pin or use wash away record to secure your fabric to the zipper. Make sure to grab the lining when y'all pivot, the retentivity press you lot created on step nine should assist make this process easier. Run up using your zipper foot.

Step 12:

Adhere your main fabric sixteen″ x 3″ piece, correct sides together to the main backpack piece, along the left side (the side without zipper). Only sew together from ane cease of the fusible fleece to the other, go out the 1″ ends that practice not accept fusible fleece unfolded. Next, attach the other side of that piece to the right side of back of backpack.

Step 13:

Attach the lining 16″ 10 3″ piece (the i that has no fusible fleece) to the correct of lining piece (the one with pocket) and sew together from one end of the pressed mark to the other, leaving one″ on each side. Fold the one″ that remains on top and lesser of that piece to the wrong side on both the lining and primary fabric, brand certain side of the slice stays folded following the memory printing nosotros created before. Pin together enclosing the zipper piece. Sew making sure to grab the lining. Echo with other side.

Step fourteen:

Pin the master fabric slice to the left of primary backpack through all layers, catching the one lining piece that remains unsewn. Stitch in the ditch on the main side, making sure to catch the lining slice then it closes

Step 15:

At present information technology's time to have care of the straps. Take hold of your bottom strap and fold information technology 1/4″ twice and sew to enclose. Repeat with other bottom strap. For the top strap, fold information technology 1/iv″to the wrong side, slide through the showtime opening on strap ladder, run through second opening and pin. Sew together to secure. Repeat with other strap.

Pace 16:
Take hold of your bottom strap and run information technology through the 2nd opening on the strap ladder, from the bottom up, so downwards through the remaining opening and adjust as necessary.

That's it! Y'all are now washed! Hopefully you won't be having to bear your little girl'due south babies anymore, it looks like she should exist able to manage now.