Arthur’s backpack

I also made a back pack for Arthur, for Christmas …

I’ve made this pattern a couple of times before, for my own children, and Tim particularly loved his backpack when he was tiny.  He wore it all the time and would toddle about the house with it on his back, with a few precious toys stashed inside… it was very cute!  and he still has it today.  It was Tim who suggested one for Arthur too.

Fortunately I still have all my Topkids magazines, including the one the pattern was in! I still flick through them sometimes, and while some of the patterns might be considered a tiny bit dated, especially some of the ones for older kids; there are still plenty of cute ones in there.  I’m never throwing them out! Love my Topkids magazines!

I had the dark grey denim in my stash already, and also the red check cotton I used for lining throughout… the latter given to me by Mum when she cleaned out her stash.

I hand drew the letters for his name… transferred them to interfered cotton, cut them out, and stitched them to the pocket piece with narrow, closely spaced zig-zag stitches.  I had the velcro, wadding, D-rings and little swivel clip for closure already, but had to buy all the other pieces for the backpack; the red webbing, stops for the straps, and cording.  Still though, it’s been amazing to me what I do have in my stash already and am capable of finally putting to good use!

If you’d like to see Tim’s own backpack, I blogged about his yonks ago here, back in the early days of my blog.  He still has it today and loves it!  This is so heartwarming to me, and I just hope Arthur loves and enjoys using and wearing his own backpack too.  If I get a nice picture of Arthur wearing his own backpack I will certainly update here, and put it in  🙂