Hey!
I’ve been busy sewing my first backpack last weekend and it is finally completed. And I thought I’d share my process and result here
The pack is made from my own design, but I’ve taken a lot of ideas for the construction and materials from looking at how my Savotta Jääkäri XL rucksack is built. The design itself is heavily influenced by Varusteleka’s Särmä TST CP 15 combat pack. This tutorial was what originally gave me the confidence to try out making a backpack. There are a lot more steps and details to sew in a pack compared to my earlier projects, but the sewing itself is not actually very hard, you just need patience to do it step by step.
The pack is 4 major panels of fabric: the anterior, posterior, bottom, and a long intermediate panel that wraps around the perimeter of the anterior and posterior panels. The shoulder straps are detachable and I did not make new ones for this project since I already have detachable shoulder straps from before.
Here’s the finished pack seeing daylight for the first time on my commute today:
And here is the pack just after I finished it. It also compresses down to a smaller size quite well:
I will probably post more images of the process a bit later. I just wanted to get something posted because I have a tendency to start writing a whole book worth of documentation when I want to share a project :)
