A couple of flowers and some buttons dressed up this backpack to the point where my 13-year-old daughter was willing to use it for her recent trip to the state of New York (as opposed to driving into town and buying a new one).
We carefully removed the backpack’s logo, using a seam ripper and pulling out one stitch at a time. This gave us a clean canvas for our design–a clean, very orange canvas.
After testing quite a few different flower and leaf combinations, she chose “Ray Flower” from Crochet Bouquet and the Little Flower from “Curly Curlicues” of Crochet Garden. We added buttons from our stash.
Here’s how to put it all together:
- Arrange flowers and buttons as desired.
- With pencil, mark flower and button centers on the backpack, to help with placement later.
- Use fabric adhesive to glue flowers in place. Let glue dry.
- With sewing thread and needle, sew invisibly around edges of flowers. In addition, for larger flowers like the Ray Flower, stitch around one of the rounds close to the center.
- Sew on buttons.