Malta Backpack

✩ Determining increases for the leather bottom to establish the backpack’s foundation ✩ Two calculation options for raffia and polyester cord ✩ Creating a striped or solid-colored backpack ✩ Mastering the elegant pattern design ✩ Crocheting a clasp and eyelets ✩ Installing leather and metal accessories ✩ Sewing a lining into the backpack

To create this backpack measuring 313215 cm, you’ll need:

✩2 skeins of Ispie raffia (or an alternative raffia, such as Fibranatura, requiring 3 skeins of the main color and 2 of the secondary color for a striped backpack) ✩Approximately 600-700 meters of 2mm polyester cord ✩Leather accessories including the bottom, shoulder straps, drawstring, and luverses, or a backpack kit with flap and drawstrings ✩Lining fabric measuring 50100 cm, ideally cotton, linen, batiste, or lining fabric ✩Crocheting hook sized 3.5-4 mm ✩Additional supplies such as scissors, knitting markers, a screwdriver, and a needle with transparent line