Travel Backpack with Camping Gear Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Pulled together a travel backpack and camping gear cluster, loaded up like youre about to head into the woods. Pack body sits front-on with a wide flap top, two long tan leather straps running down the front through brass-gold rectangular buckles, and a smaller side pocket with its own thin buckle strap. Cream-coloured rolled sleeping mat sits horizontal across the top, strapped on with two more leather straps, and the rolled side shows a tiny green map-print pattern peeking out one end.

Body of the pack is teal canvas with a textured hatched stitch pattern running diagonal across the surface, gives it that worn-canvas grain look rather than a flat blob of colour. Black outline runs around every panel edge as a top-layer running stitch which is what holds the vintage-illustration feel together. The leather straps are tan brown satin column with a darker brown shadow line down each side, and every buckle is gold with a tiny black detail line for the prong.

I digitised this for outdoorsy folk, scout leaders and travel bloggers, kinda the camping crowd in general. The small at 2.43 by 3.5 inches and the big at 5.21 by 7.49 inches, suits a duffle panel, jacket sleeve patch or backpack front beautifully. One customer last summer ordered the medium for her partners birthday, stitched it on the side panel of his actual hiking rucksack as a personalising touch. She told me he laughed for a good five minutes when he opened it.

Density runs around 1568 spi which is heavier than most of the catalogue, so this is alot of thread for the size. Biggest version hits 61k stitches. Body fills with tatami in teal with the diagonal hatch as a separate top layer which keeps the texture visible without doubling the density underneath. Buckles use small dense satin in gold so they read as metal rather than flat yellow. The straps and buckle order matters, so dont skip a colour change or the buckles will end up under the strap layer.

Pick heavy canvas, denim or thick cotton twill if youre after the best result. Stick to cream, sand, charcoal or natural canvas, thats where the teal pack pops without competing. Skip teal or turquoise fabric, the canvas body wont read against matching colour. Avoid stretch jersey, the heavy density on this one will pucker badly without rigid backing. Slap a heavy cutaway under it, hoop tight, and slow the speed on the body fill section to keep the hatching crisp. And keep an eye on the colour-change order, theres a bunch of leather-and-brass swaps in a row.