Disclaimer: This post will most likely be updated a number of times over the next few months as I remember items I’ve left off.
This is going to be a pretty boring post, only because I’m going to just run through all my materials and supplies plus give you resources on how to prototype a project like this. I won’t share my prototypes here just yet but will save those for later posts, but I thought I needed to just dump materials and ideas now and not at the end of this series. Hopefully, my personal aside about cute cats and dogs makes up for the lack of anything else in this post.
Prototyping
Tackling a project this extensive involves a lot of preparation and planning. If you’ve been making your own gear for awhile, you might have small bits of webbing, ribbon, and fabric around, but you may not. How do you test out a project like this then? It’s helpful to have some ideas how to test the fit and style using lower cost materials. It’s challenging to get your head around a pack without just building one. I also want to encourage people to get past the mental block about waste. The most wasteful thing you can do is build a whole pack or garment and then never use it or get halfway through your final project and never finish because you hit a hurdle too big to overcome. It’s better to slowly work your way into a project like this using random things you have on hand around you, so by the time you make your final product, you are able to complete it and will be something you can use and love.
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