Craft your very own stylish and trendy ‘Malta - Fashion Backpack’ using this comprehensive English pattern designed in US standard terms. This pattern features a beautifully textured, luxurious backpack using simple yet classic crochet stitches.

The accompanying video tutorial in American English provides detailed guidance on various aspects, including:

✩ 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