{"id":21346,"date":"2013-12-16T06:19:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T13:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=21346"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T21:48:40","slug":"bamqg-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/bamqg-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"BAMQG Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21349\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4405sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21349\" alt=\"Iron Caddy\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4405sm-300x207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4405sm-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4405sm.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iron Caddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday was the BAMQG Holiday Party and Meeting. The meeting part was relatively short, then we had the gift exchange and Show &amp; Tell.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned that I had made a <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/holiday-2013-gift-post-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">gift<\/a> for my Secret Santa and showed it a week early, which led to the realization that I was able to make the meeting. The recipient, Laura was really pleased with the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/secret-santa\/\" target=\"_blank\">tote bag<\/a> and needle case I made. I really should have put pins and needles in it as I think she was a little confused about what should go where. I showed her and I think it ended up okay.<\/p>\n<p>Jen was my Secret Santa and she made me this Iron Caddy. Didn&#8217;t she do a great job?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21348\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4406sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21348\" alt=\"Iron Caddy - half open\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4406sm-300x243.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4406sm-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4406sm.jpg 916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iron Caddy &#8211; half open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jen said used a free pattern she found somewhere on Ning. She said she made two of them alongside each other so she could test <a href=\"http:\/\/api.ning.com\/files\/aJybRxMwi2nNY0uPj*OzQyi3F1jU2Sj46UwmFyk3Sj107qO0lxZXl-0rOK1rMK05do7mbu0m5qI8avxeK2yQSzI9PkP9Y8YG\/IronCaddyTote.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the pattern<\/a>. I thought that was really sweet; it made me feel like she really cared about the gift to me<\/p>\n<p>The pattern she used didn&#8217;t sound like the same one <a href=\"http:\/\/highfibercontent.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Julie<\/a> told me about that so frustrated her.<\/p>\n<p>Jen did say that there was one measurement off &#8212;\u00a0the 7&#8243;\u00a0measurement in the middle should be 6-1\/2&#8243;. I haven&#8217;t tried it so, pay attention if you make this pattern.<\/p>\n<p>I still have not yet made the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/various-sundry-2013-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Caddy pattern<\/a> I bought at Quiltin&#8217; Cousins, so perhaps I am off the hook?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21347\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4407sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21347\" alt=\"Iron Caddy as ironing surface\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4407sm-300x268.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4407sm-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PICT4407sm.jpg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iron Caddy as ironing surface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks to Jen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the BAMQG Holiday Party and Meeting. The meeting part was relatively short, then we had the gift exchange and Show &amp; Tell. I mentioned that I had made a gift for my Secret Santa and showed it a week early, which led to the realization that I was able to make the meeting. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/bamqg-gift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BAMQG Gift&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[137,160,324,338,59],"class_list":["post-21346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-bamqg","tag-guilds","tag-meetings","tag-quiltmaking-challenges","tag-swaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21346","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=21346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}