Rucksack in a Day Workshop

£199.00

Make your own leather & canvas rucksack in a single day! Learn about leather types, follow a ready-made pattern (customise with or without a front pocket, colours to suit your style), and sew it all on an industrial machine. PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS AN INTENSIVE ONE DAY COURSE. PRIOR SEWING MACHINE EXPERIENCE IS ADVISABLE BUT NOT ESSENTIAL

Design features:

  • Inside zipped pocket for valuables

  • Adjustable straps for comfort

  • Long buckle straps for extra storage

Rucksack measures 40 cm × 50 cm × 10 cm. All materials, tools, and a colour range provided (or bring your own). Optional: emboss your initials for a personal touch.

Intensive one-day course (10 am–6 pm), small class (max 3), tea and coffee included—bring a packed lunch. Prior sewing experience helpful but not essential. Flexible dates—contact me to book or discuss requirements.

Workshop duration: 1 day, 10am-6pm with 45 mins for lunch

Maximum 3 people at my Essex studio

Date of course:

Make your own leather & canvas rucksack in a single day! Learn about leather types, follow a ready-made pattern (customise with or without a front pocket, colours to suit your style), and sew it all on an industrial machine. PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS AN INTENSIVE ONE DAY COURSE. PRIOR SEWING MACHINE EXPERIENCE IS ADVISABLE BUT NOT ESSENTIAL

Design features:

  • Inside zipped pocket for valuables

  • Adjustable straps for comfort

  • Long buckle straps for extra storage

Rucksack measures 40 cm × 50 cm × 10 cm. All materials, tools, and a colour range provided (or bring your own). Optional: emboss your initials for a personal touch.

Intensive one-day course (10 am–6 pm), small class (max 3), tea and coffee included—bring a packed lunch. Prior sewing experience helpful but not essential. Flexible dates—contact me to book or discuss requirements.

Workshop duration: 1 day, 10am-6pm with 45 mins for lunch

Maximum 3 people at my Essex studio

Reviews

Brian Charlton - April 2021

My wife and I both thoroughly enjoyed our rucksack making day. Rosanna guided us carefully and patiently through every step of the process. It was great to work through the process and very satisfying by mid afternoon to see the rucksack taking shapes as we stitched leather and canvas together and affixed the rivets. Very proud and totally pleased with the finished product.

Kellie Gardner - June 2021

This was my third workshop with Rosanna, this time my fiancé joined us to make 'his & hers' rucksacks! We love the fact we’ve made something unique & learnt skills for future use. We thoroughly enjoyed the day, choosing the canvas, leather & using the templates definitely made things easier.
Rosanna is a great teacher and was always on hand, especially with some of the tricky sewing, which the sewing machines handled with ease.
If you like crafting, the opportunity to learn from a great teacher, to use great materials & take away something unique then book yourself on this course, you won’t be disappointed!

Kinjal Amin

Fantastic day learning some important skills. Lovely choice of materials and Rosanna is wonderful and very patient. You simply cannot go wrong with this course it is a perfect day out! Book now!

Kate Clare-Kennedy

The whole day was just wonderful. Right from the start, when you arrive at the lovely creative studio in such peaceful surroundings, you then choose the colour of the leather and then the colour of the canvas and then of course the colour of the lining. Choices, choices, choices! I have done a previous course with Rosanna so I knew just how organised and what a great teacher she was. The patterns were all ready for us to cut out and she explained everything we had to do in great detail and helped us when we got to a tricky bit! I wanted to learn how to sew leather and how to construct a bag and that is exactly what happened and I had a great time doing it. I returned home with my lovely rucksack and everyone said how talented I was. Rosanna is the talented one but just a tiny bit of that has rubbed off on me! If you are thinking about doing a course with Rosanna, just sign up, you won't regret it.