How To Paint Your Own Camoflague

The Military trend with camouflage prints withal seem to exist around. I must confess that I have always had a soft spot for military fashion and camouflage prints. Getting hold of camouflage fabric though, was always hard, specially because at one point it was actually outlawed to wear any camouflage in S Africa unless it was actually in the military machine.

Never beingness ane to surrender against odds I decided to make my own camouflage cloth and to make a haversack from it. But earlier I bear witness what I have washed, hither's some great cover-up looks to give you some ideas of what yous tin trasform into camouflage by handpainting the camouflage patterns on evidently fabric. The one below is from from Sweetie Pie Style

camouflage look fashion diy

From Sweetie Style

And from Manner Weblog Love

Camoufleuge Fashion looks

From Fashion Blog Love

I had some heavy duty cream fabric left from a previous projection, which I decided would be platonic for making a backpack from. So, stride ane was to find a camouflage print design that I liked. Hither's some ideas from Blog Spoon Graphics (The patterns are available from Weblog Spoon for download)

Woodland Camouflage

Urban Cover-up

Desert Camouflage

I chose to use a version of Woodland Camouflage often used in Africa. I used fabric paint to paint the camouflage patterns on – freehand. After the colour was set and I washed and ironed the fabric, I started to cut out the design. What is not bad almost making your own bag is that y'all can decided exactly how many pockets you lot desire, what style, size and straps. I made my own blueprint looking at various bags and picking what I like.

I salvaged straps and closures from old broken backpacks.

DIY Camouflage fabric and backpack