I’ve wanted to sew backpacks for years and have finally gotten around to doing so. A side benefit of Covid is having more time on my hands to do projects.
My prior sewing experience was a bunch of polarfleece and a few duffle bags. To get started I made the daypack and alpine rucksack from The Rainshed patterns. I finished the rucksack today. The packs turned out ok, not great, but servicable.
What I am looking for are patterns for larger, multi day packs. In my mind I would like something that would hold five days worth of gear and food in three season, upper midwest conditions. I call my hiking style, “lighter than it used to be.” Weight wise, say a 40 pound pack limit. I hope to carry less than that, but for sake of discussion this is a starting point. I would like a padded hip belt and likely a framesheet and probably one stay.
I’ve thought about designing my own pack or scaling up the alpine rucksack pattern, but there must be patterns or plans which would cut down the design time.
I could also use an industrial machine. Baby steps.
Anybody have any sources or ideas? Thanks for the help.
