Thank you so much for choosing to make my plushie backpack! This intermediate-advanced level pattern includes instructions for the plushie backpack and the regular plushie versions of the Beetle baby. This design also features an optional leg-kick mechanism using an air pump for those who want to add a little interactive fun! The backpack uses a premade, 7x9-inch drawstring liner, but those with sewing skills can make their own liner. If you’re making a kicking backpack, I highly recommend using the specified yarn or an equivalent to make sure the sizing is right. Mine measures about 16 in. tall and 7 inches wide, not including the arms. Any yarn weight will work for a pushie with no air pumps.

This pattern is written in US terms and is worked mostly in the round. The straps are “made to fit.”

Supplies
-Yarn
-Bernat Blanket- 1 skein each
white (clothes/snake), black (clothes/snake), sparkle limeade (hair)
-Bernat Blanket- about half a skein of
antique white (face)
birch (skin- hands/feet/facial details)
-small amount of
aqua/mint worsted weight acrylic/cotton for snake’s mouth
mossy yarn

6.5 & 3.75 mm hooks
30 mm safety eyes (spiderweb eyes from Nightmare Stitchery; 14 mm eyes for the snake (for Bernat Blanket yarn, adjust for other weights)
7x9 inch cotton canvas drawstring bag for the liner (or sew your own)

Kicky leg supplies- 2 air bag pumps, mini duct tape, e6000/hot glue

Eyeshadow- for face shading
blunt-tipped needle for sewing
scissors
poly-fil

other helpful items: stitch markers, sewing pins (to pin pieces in place before sewing), and something to poke holes through the liner (you can carefully cut small holes with scissors or even use a hole punch).

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Pattern purchase grants the right to sell or gift any products made using this pattern as long as credit is given to the designer when posting on social or in shop listings.