I decided to try to make Snuggle-bug a backpack carrier for her baby doll as a birthday present. Of course, I was making this the night before her birthday again. :) I used a basic drawstring bag design, and using the baby, designed the harness part. It took some re-sewing in the craft room, but I think it turned out pretty well. It works better if she is hauling a small board book in the backpack part, to give it some weight in the right place. For some reason, the bunny uses it more than the baby.
If I hadn't been so rushed (or knew what I was doing better) I may have taken some pictures as I went to give a decent how-to. I cut 2 of my leg/tummy support; put wrong sides together, sewed, then turned inside out and ironed. And then realized I should have sewed my shoulder straps into that as I went, to avoid stitched rectangles showing when I sewed them in later. (I hate switching colors in my sewing machine. I don't know why. I am perhaps the world's laziest sewer.)
Then I decided where to place the harness on the bag--sewed the edges on to each side of the right side of one side of the bag. Then sewed the bag together. Using the doll, tried to get the placement right, then sewed the shoulder straps in; then the casing for the ribbon backpack straps, etc.
Anyway, you get the idea. :)
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