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Join us for a fun and creative day where you will make the The Range Backpack - your new everyday sidekick! This practical session introduces you to bag making skills needed to create your very own professional useful bag.Working step-by-step with expert guidance, you’ll learn key measuring, cutting, and construction techniques, giving you the confidence to complete your bag.
The Range Backpack - Although the bag looks impressively polished, the process is surprisingly achievable once you get going. This workshop is perfect for adventurous beginners and confident sewists wanting to develop new skills. With a perfect size to fit all your everyday plus your lunch and a few extras, this is an everyday backpack.
Throughout the workshop, Diane will guide you step-by-step through the full construction process—from cutting and assembling your pieces to inserting the zip and adding a lining. You’ll finish the day with a unique, beautifully made bag and plenty of new sewing skills under your belt.
We will be sending you your pattern two weeks before the class so you can get prepped and ready with your pattern pinned onto your fabric, we advise not to cut your fabric out just so Diane can check over your placement, but this gives you the best chance of finishing the bag in the allocated time.
What You Will Learn
Understanding pattern pieces
Cutting and preparing fabric & lining
Constructing a shaped bag
Inserting a zip
Adding lining
Working with webbing (optional)
Bag finishing techniques
What You Need to Bring
Sewing machine threaded and working
(If you need to use one of ours, please let us know at the time of booking—numbers are limited.)
Basic sewing kit: scissors, pins, unpicker etc.
(You may use our shared kit if you don’t have your own.)
Fabric & Lining: a full list will be sent once you book.
A zip
Optional: interfacing, webbing
A full checklist will be emailed to you after booking
What We Provide
The Range Backpack pattern
Full instruction and guidance throughout the day
Expert help with fabric choices and techniques
Sewing Level
Confident Beginner — you must know how to use a sewing machine and have sewn something before, whether it’s a cushion, tote bag or garment, a little knowledge of a sewing machine is needed.
Duration
6.5 hours, including a 30-minute lunch break
Tutor
Diane
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Make Fabric Boutique, 40 Tavistock Place, Plymouth, PL4 8AX, United Kingdom
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