Good morning,
This it the backpack I made for the youngest girl, I fits her perfectly! She is only 3 so she needed a smaller pack. I do like the fact that it not only has the outside pocket you see in the picture, but has a good sized inner pocket and a smaller "cell phone" pocket, we are calling it her crayon pocket!
This is the pack I did for the older girl, she is a hardcore Hannah Montana junkie! This is the same size as a standard backpack. It also has an outer pocket, two inner pockets and a cell phone pocket, since she does not have a cell phone I made a button whole in the gusset just above the pocket so she can put her MP3 player in the pack and run the headphone wires out so she can listen while they travel.
This is the mom's pack, I love the fabric! I have extra and WILL be making myself a purse from it! I think I like this one the best, to the left you see the part with the flowers and the blue underneath, that is the outer pack, the flower portion is one very large pocket, this pack also has two large inner pockets and the cell phone pocket, she will also get a button whole for her MP3 player. I can not believe how long it has been since I last posted. I have been very lax about making purses. I do have a couple in the works right now and will have them done by the end of the weekend.
I have actually been working on some custom backpacks for a friend, she and her family are taking an extended vacation this summer, they are flying to the east coast, then driving up to Canada to say with family. She felt it would be nice if each of them had their own back pack. I got the girls packs finished last weekend and am in the process of making hers now, will have it done by the end of the weekend also.
After I get done with the three bags this week end I have another commission to do two more packs for another lady. Whew, and the sad thing, I am not fond of doing the backpacks!
Well, here is a couple quick shots of the two finished packs, I will show the other three as soon as they are done, they are much more "grown up" then these two!
This it the backpack I made for the youngest girl, I fits her perfectly! She is only 3 so she needed a smaller pack. I do like the fact that it not only has the outside pocket you see in the picture, but has a good sized inner pocket and a smaller "cell phone" pocket, we are calling it her crayon pocket!
This is the pack I did for the older girl, she is a hardcore Hannah Montana junkie! This is the same size as a standard backpack. It also has an outer pocket, two inner pockets and a cell phone pocket, since she does not have a cell phone I made a button whole in the gusset just above the pocket so she can put her MP3 player in the pack and run the headphone wires out so she can listen while they travel.
If you are interested in the pattern I have been using, here it is, Backpacks by Cindy Taylor Oates. I have to say now that I am on my third pack it is getting better, I have made a couple of minor alterations to the written pattern, and done some mixing and matching.
And as always I have streamlined the process a bit, mainly by precutting everything. I also use fusible interfacing and fusible batting, I iron on ALL of my batts and interfacing then I start to sew, it makes things go much much faster if I don't have to keep jumping up and down to iron parts.
So in the end, if you are interested in making a backpack, this is a good pattern, just go slow, read everything and have fun.
Talk to you all soon,
Ginny
This is the inside, I was surprised with how roomy it it, there are two deep pockets too. 
I was not happy with how the gusset joined on the black purse, to me it looks kind of sloppy, so I tweaked things a little bit on this bag, plus I used a fabric that I like much better! My tweak did make the bag just a tiny bit smaller, only an inch or so and it gave it a much smoother look, what do you think?
Here is the inside of the blue purse, again two deep pockets.
I thought this was a neat little quilt, dragons and flames!.JPG)
This is the back of the dragon quilt, these are just little thing, both the horse quilt and the dragon quilt (and the Pink one too) measure 45" by 45" so you could call them baby or lap quilts..JPG)
