{"id":26205,"date":"2014-12-16T05:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=26205"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:17:37","slug":"non-christmas-gift-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/non-christmas-gift-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Christmas Gift Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26201\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-wp-1418535292817.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26201\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-wp-1418535292817-224x300.jpeg\" alt=\"December Gift Bags\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-wp-1418535292817-224x300.jpeg 224w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-wp-1418535292817-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-wp-1418535292817.jpeg 1551w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December Gift Bags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What the heck? I know you are wondering. Christmas is exploding all over and I am making birthday and Mother&#8217;s Day bags? Huh?<\/p>\n<p>A week or so ago, I did some cleaning and clearing. Nothing crazy, just a bit. I found these fabrics and was about to get rid of them when we had to wrap gifts for the Young Man&#8217;s birthday. I used the same gift bags I always use. I don&#8217;t know what happens to them all, but they disappear except for the few that I snatch out of people&#8217;s hands as soon as they remove the gift, so they don&#8217;t walk off. I also love them and am not giving them up.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that these fabrics would make nice additional gift bags, so I sewed for about 20 minutes and have 3 new gift bags. I had four, but one piece of fabric disappeared. I am sure it will turn up, but I didn&#8217;t take the time to look for it.<\/p>\n<p>Need to make gift bags to save trees and save wrapping time. I have a <a title=\"Gift Bag Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/gift-bag-tutorial\/\">tutorial<\/a>. Now go make some gift bags!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the heck? I know you are wondering. Christmas is exploding all over and I am making birthday and Mother&#8217;s Day bags? Huh? A week or so ago, I did some cleaning and clearing. Nothing crazy, just a bit. I found these fabrics and was about to get rid of them when we had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/non-christmas-gift-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non-Christmas Gift Bags&#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":[381],"tags":[19,86],"class_list":["post-26205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-gift-bags","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205","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=26205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}