Accessories for decorating backpacks and bags have always been in great demand. A small-sized object suspended on a chain, in addition to adding individuality and emphasizing the style of its owner, can also perform many useful functions. So, to a toy-shaped keychain attached to a child’s purse, you can attach a card with his address and parents’ phone numbers, hide a spare house key, and so on.
Features of making a keychain for a backpack with your own hands
Recently, the hand-made trend has become increasingly popular. It is much more pleasant for people to buy things made by the hands of a living person than clothes, jewelry and accessories made on a machine.
Those who make accessories for sale or to order note that recently the demand has increased specifically for funny fur figurines in the form of animals. Buyers are also interested in pendants in the form of dolls, car badges and license plates for cars.
Mass production of metal and plastic souvenirs involves the use of complex equipment that allows the implementation of technologies:
- jewelry casting;
- stamping;
- chemical etching.
At home, it is often not possible to install a special machine for stamping and printing, so all “hand-made” things are made from fabric, yarn, polymer clay or paper.
Important! In order for home-made keychains to bring joy and even a small income, it is necessary to use only high-quality materials, which will cost you a fair amount.
First of all, you will need high-quality fasteners, which can be in the form of:
- threads that are suitable for soft felt or faux fur accessories;
- chains with large ring-clips that fit any keychain;
- drop-down rings used for hard plastic or metal key chains;
- threaded loops for screwing into plastic, polymer clay or wood.
You can purchase the necessary fasteners and consumables at any craft store. You can also order accessories from online stores.
How to make a backpack keychain with your own hands
The first thing a person who decides to make a keychain for a backpack with their own hands may encounter is the lack of suitable ideas. You can get inspiration by visiting flea markets, points selling hand-made products, looking on the Internet, or paying attention to the following master classes.
On the pages of a small keychain that looks like a real book, you can write down several wishes and declarations of love and give it to a loved one. To make a book-shaped keychain with your own hands, you need to stock up on:
- sheets of white paper and cardboard;
- knife and scissors;
- PVA glue;
- ruler and pencil;
- sewing accessories;
- fastening for the finished keychain;
- awl
Step-by-step instruction:
- The album sheet is cut into rectangles, from which the pages of the future book are then folded. The finished double leaves are folded in pairs, so that several blanks of 2-4 sheets are obtained. The finished book can contain from 12 to 16 sheets.
- An awl is used to pierce each sheet at the fold. It is important to ensure that the puncture locations match on all pages.
- Each workpiece is stitched with a regular “back needle” seam. To make the binding more convenient, it is necessary to prepare several blanks with two punctures and several blanks with five. Workpieces with fewer punctures are first fastened together, then those with more.
- The bound spine is greased with PVA and left to dry. The book is placed under a press.
- The cover for the book is made of cardboard. The area of the cover should match the area of the pages. In order for the cover to be hard, it is necessary to make a blank for the cover from soft paper and a harder blank from cardboard. The paper is pasted over the cardboard and after the workpiece has dried, they begin gluing the pages to the cover.
- The first and last sheets of the book are glued to the cover using PVA. The spine is “planted” on Super-glue by first placing a fastening chain between the sewn pages and the cover.
Advice! As facing material for the book, you can use chintz fabric, scrapbooking paper with patterns, or any other colored paper.
Beginners are advised to learn how to create beaded keychains by making various figures using the brick fastening technique.Using visual diagrams, you can learn how to make accessories in the form of animals, vegetables, fruits, or individual phrases and words. Bead pendants are attached to long threads with metal rings.
Weaving from small rubber bands has become especially popular in the last few years. Even a child can master such a simple craft; the main thing is to have a hook, a sufficient number of elastic bands, a special machine or an ordinary table fork. To make a keychain from rubber bands in the shape of a flower you will need:
- hook number 3;
- 100 rubber bands (50 rubber bands of one color and 50 of another).
All elastic bands are put on the handle of the hook. They are tied in the center with a ring and the loop is pulled through all the elastic bands, secured with the nose of the hook. This weaving is considered the simplest and results in a flower in the shape of a sun. It is best to attach it to a long thread with a ring.
To make a cute and soft cat or dog for a keychain, felt is perfect as the main material. Using pre-prepared patterns, parts of the body are cut out of felt of different colors and sewn together. To give the figure volume, it can be stuffed with cotton wool or padding polyester. Attach felt animals to a thread with a ring.
From any fabric, as well as from felt, you can make any figure to decorate a backpack. Let's learn how to make a pendant in the shape of a hare from flax. To work you will need:
- linen in blue, white, brown and orange;
- floss of the same colors;
- pencil;
- thin needle;
- scissors;
- thin cord;
- padding polyester;
- hare pattern.
Manufacturing process step by step:
- The pattern is transferred to the fabric.
- The parts are cut out, leaving some fabric for the seams.
- The eyes and nose are sewn to the front part, using thread to embroider the pupils in the form of crosses, and the mouth – using a “back needle” stitch.
- A carrot is sewn to the front. Strokes are made on it with brown threads, and green leaves.
- The two halves are sewn together with an overcast stitch, padding polyester is stuffed inside, leaving one area unsewn.
- A lace is inserted into the unstitched area, making a loop for fastening. The bunny is ready.
How to quickly and easily make a keychain for a backpack
You can quickly build a pendant for a backpack using:
- Pieces of genuine leather. A rolled piece of fringed leather is secured to a carabiner and the stylish decoration is ready.
- Wooden or plastic beads. Beads strung on knitting needles or sticks can be combined into a single composition by collecting them on one large fastening carbine.
Figures carved from wood are also suitable. The figures painted with acrylic paints will be an excellent decoration and addition to any adult or children's backpack.
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