Fashion upcycling: Create a backpack with second-hand clothes

Overview

“Now, we'll assemble our backpack. I'll guide you through sewing the straps and making all the pieces to form a functional and stylish bag.”

In this video lesson Luisa Hurtado addresses the topic: Sewing the Straps and Building the Backpack 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Fashion upcycling: Create a backpack with second-hand clothes. Transform second-hand garments into unique fashion pieces! Create your own upcycled backpack and accessories..

Partial transcription of the video

“To start building the backpack, I want to first get my straps ready. If you have to, use scraps and make it from multiple pieces. Here, I'll show you how. So first, we're going to grab all the pieces that we were able to cut to the proper width, which is four inches. We're going to sew all of these together to create one long piece. So here I have the pieces that I was able to obtain from my jeans, and I have about 33, 34 inches. And that's good because I need the extra material to count for the seam allowance right here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put all these pieces together...”

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Course summary for: Fashion upcycling: Create a backpack with second-hand clothes

• Level: Beginner
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• 2575 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (2h 26m)
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• Category

  Craft, Fashion

• Areas

  DIY, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing, Upcycling