{"id":17815,"date":"2013-04-08T06:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:53:13","slug":"the-petrillo-bag-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-petrillo-bag-along\/","title":{"rendered":"The Petrillo Bag Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Petrillo Bag PDF Sewing Pattern by sewsweetness, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/54301092@N03\/8548715410\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Petrillo Bag PDF Sewing Pattern  by Sew Sweetness\" alt=\"Petrillo Bag PDF Sewing Pattern  by Sew Sweetness\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8101\/8548715410_d60fd297c7.jpg\" width=\"386\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petrillo Bag PDF Sewing Pattern by Sew Sweetness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Petrillo Along is starting!<\/p>\n<p>You might remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/various-sundry-2013-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">I saw this bag<\/a> a few weeks ago and extolled its virtues, most of which had to do with it being a vertical bag that was good sized, but not a Rotator Cuff Injury inducing size. I posted a &#8216;warning&#8217; in a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/bay-area-modern-march-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">March 18<\/a> that we would be starting soon and Pam, of Hip to Be a Square fame, talked about the bag along in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiptobeasquarepodcast.com\/2013\/03\/htbas-episode-121\/\" target=\"_blank\">episode 121<\/a> podcast. We have finally gotten our acts together, other projects in order and are ready to go. Pam already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiptobeasquarepodcast.com\/2013\/04\/the-petrillo-along\/\" target=\"_blank\">posted the notice of the &#8216;Along&#8217; yesterda<\/a>y and I am following along in her footsteps to catch my readers as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the schedule that Pam laid out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1 (week of 4\/7\/2013) \u2013 assemble pattern pieces, supplies, and get fabric cut out.<\/li>\n<li>Week 2 (next week, starting on 4\/14) \u2013 sew the bag.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I may have to modify it to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Week 1 (week of 4\/7\/2013) \u2013 assemble pattern pieces, and supplies<\/li>\n<li>Week 2 (week of 4\/14\/2013) &#8211; Cut out the fabric<\/li>\n<li>Week 3 (starting on 4\/21) \u2013 sew the bag<\/li>\n<li>Week 4 (starting 4\/28) &#8211; finish up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that we all have a different working pace and obligations.\u00a0Pam works quickly, so don&#8217;t be intimidated by her pace. I have to be out of town a couple of times this month and I like to work slowly on bags. Pick\u00a0 (or make up) the schedule that works for <em><strong>you<\/strong><\/em>. Pam is in the middle of her Labyrinth quilt, so the only hope I have of finishing the Petrillo bag anywhere close to when Pam does is to get started immediately and sew like a demon. \ud83d\ude09 I would advise you to focus on having fun.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewsweetnesspatterns.com\/products\/petrillo-bag\" target=\"_blank\">pattern<\/a> you can get it instantly (or nearly instantly) as it is a downloadable pattern. It is only $8.<\/p>\n<p>There are some specialty supplies you need to probably get online. Sara suggests different places to get the supplies. I had seen Soft &amp; Stable at the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/road-to-california-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Road to California quilt show<\/a> I attended last year. I was interested in trying it, but didn&#8217;t buy any as I didn&#8217;t have a suitable project at the time. Thus, for this project, I ended up buying the Soft and Stable from ByAnnie.com. I am not affilated with that site and don&#8217;t think it was the absolute cheapest site, but I was in a rush and wanted to make sure I got the right stuff. Amazon was out at the time. The package was sent out really quickly. I received the Soft &amp; Stable in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the snaps from AGraffSupplies on Etsy. I am not affiliated with that site. They had the snaps cheaper than Sara&#8217;s preferred vendor. I compared and I am pretty sure the snaps were the same. The confusing part about both Etsy shops was that it was hard to tell how many I was buying. I ended up with a big bag of magnetic snaps &#8211; many more than I needed. I&#8217;ll have to go on a bag making binge to use them all up. <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Nota bene: These turned out to the wrong ones. You need to buy SEW-IN magnetic snaps. I didn&#8217;t even realize such a thing existed.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I bought the Shape Flex, which seems to be muslin with fusible on the back from Beverly&#8217;s online.<\/p>\n<p>Pam made the <a title=\"2wenty Thr3e Aeroplane Bag\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hiptobeasquarepodcast.com\/2013\/04\/2wenty-thr3e-aeroplane-bag\/\">Aeroplane bag<\/a> pattern and says &#8220;Sara\u2019s patterns are awesomely written with clear instructions and lots of pictures&#8221;.\u00a0 Pam is making one change to the bag construction; rather than using the Soft &amp; Stable, she will be using &#8220;a combination of Pellon Decor Bond (a home dec weight interfacing) along with Pellon Fusible Fleece.&#8221;\u00a0 If you want to make changes like that, then Pam is your girl. I wasn&#8217;t happy with the floopy results of changing out fusible fleece for two layers of regular batting and some interfacing when I made my <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/sugar-pop-cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">last Chubby Charmer<\/a>, so I am going to stick with the directions on supplies for the most part. It is also a good opportunity for me to try the Soft &amp; Stable as well.<\/p>\n<p>As Pam said, in addition to posting my progress here, I\u2019ll be posting pictures to Sara\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/sewsweetness\/\">usual Flickr group<\/a> so she can see our work as well.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and make a Petrillo bag!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**Thanks to Sara at Sew Sweetness for allowing me to use her image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Petrillo Along is starting! You might remember that I saw this bag a few weeks ago and extolled its virtues, most of which had to do with it being a vertical bag that was good sized, but not a Rotator Cuff Injury inducing size. I posted a &#8216;warning&#8217; in a post on March 18 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-petrillo-bag-along\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Petrillo Bag Along&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[402],"tags":[365,72,330,206,255,544,66],"class_list":["post-17815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-accessories","tag-group-project","tag-other-artists","tag-petrillo-bag","tag-project-bag","tag-sew-sweetness","tag-tote-bags"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65753,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions\/65753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}