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Make Your Own Fanny Pack with This Free Pattern

Lining can be a lightweight woven fabric like Spoonflower’s Petal Signature Cotton™, just remember to wash all the fabric first to avoid mismatched shrinkage later. When I was first challenged to make a DIY tutorial inspired by the theme “traveling,” I was in the middle of cramming art supplies into an old hip pouch in preparation for a beach vacation. Use a heavy-duty needle that will easily sew through all these layers of fabric to avoid your thread bunching underneath the needle plate (bird nesting). Step 8 is titled ”Attach the Bum Bag Strap” but the strap, if you mean the waist belt webbing with belt clip, has already been attached in a prior step. Test it out with her coloring book pattern and fabric markers or give it a try with your favorite Marketplace design.Freebie fanny packs were a marketing craze in late ’80s in America, beloved by corporate event planners everywhere. Four afternoons in a row I’ve sat down to work on this—I’ve just now decided to scrap the whole thing. This fanny pack could take anywhere from 45 minutes to a couple of hours to make, but that does depend on your skill level and how comfortable you are working with the pattern. Anda: I am proud—or maybe embarrassed—to admit that fanny packs bum bags have been a part of my wardrobe since the early ’90s.

Bag Strap Extension - Etsy UK Bag Strap Extension - Etsy UK

I even wrote an entire book of afternoon sewing projects—aka the Spoonflower Quick-Sew Project Book—lest anyone doubts my devotion to finishing a DIY in the span of two podcasts. Place the two front fabric pieces wrong sides together, and repeat the above steps with the opposite side of the zipper.Line up the ends between two of the side pieces (right sides together) and stitch together with a ⅓” seam. Our team is currently working on a video tutorial to accompany these instructions and I hope that will help! It appears that there was a typo with the numbers, but Anda has confirmed that no steps have been left out. We’ve heard that in some cases the pattern was printing at a lower percent than 100%, which then causes the pattern to be smaller.

extender for my everywhere belt bag collection I made a belt extender for my everywhere belt bag collection

Their opaque quality makes them not as suitable for washes and blending, although I was able to get a gradient by using lighter colors on top of the darker colors and coloring with less pressure at the areas where the colors needed to blend. Does that mean you have questions about this pattern or things that weren’t illustrated in this post?Only snag I ran into is When printing the pattern, I’m in the United States so we use letter size paper which is 8½ by 11 and your A4 paper is a little bit different with the sizing so the scale of the pattern pieces didn’t come out quite right.