Lil Drawstring Backpack sewing pattern

Quilting cotton, Essex (cotton linen blend), lightweight (~3–5 oz) canvas, or similar woven fabric. Midweight canvas is a bit too stiff for small hands to easily cinch the drawstrings closed. If you’d like your bag to have more structure, I recommend applying a fusible interfacing like Pellon SF101 Shape Flex Fusible Interfacing to the wrong side of your lightweight fabric before sewing (requires an iron).

Two fat quarters (or 13” x 15” rectangles from your stash) for the main fabric of the bag. If adding the optional pocket, you’ll need an additional 8” x 9” rectangle of fabric per pocket. If using fabric to make the drawstring tabs instead of twill tape, you'll need two 2.5” x 5” rectangles of fabric.

4 yards of drawstring (I like braided cording) 6” of twill tape (approximately 1” wide) for the drawstring tabs 1 spool of thread that matches your fabric Safety pin or bodkin to thread the drawstring Edgestitch presser foot