Pathwork fancy zipper pouch
or
Simple zipper pouch
The first link had a tip of sewing a tab to the end of the zipper. I quickly remembered (after screwing up, of course) the value of this when I was testing one of the zippers and zipped the key right off the teeth. Sigh.
I made the first one lined and it is cute, but definitely weighs more and right now, everything I pack is about the weight. No packaging of anything is going and what I can reduce, I will. The lined one was also a PITA because I forgot to UNZIP the thing when I was closing the final seam. Yeah. I'm a rebel and rebels always have troubles. Sigh again.
On the other three, I couldn't see any reason to line the pouches. They are for kids and like kids everywhere, I am guessing these will take a beating in general so I am not too worried about them lasting longer than a year or two for those kiddos if the items all get used up and/or abused up. All part of learning, IMHO!
Each backpack contains about 8-9 dollars of actual cost and probably about 20$ value because of my frugality. There are 4 kids that are the right age to receive these in Carlos' family in the home village so I hope they can enjoy these very much. There are also 2 little kids that I will see if I can make a toy or two for them also. I've gotta find out their ages first.
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Update: I found this tutorial and I think it explains the stitching better and the pattern is darling.
"Pencil" bag
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Another Update:
Here's a couple of pictures of a young shepherd with his backpack of goodies. All the other kids in town were at a soccer match that was exciting enough that the church was even closed for the day. The town was EMPTY as we wandered around and ran into this young gentleman working.
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