{"id":26447,"date":"2015-01-07T05:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T12:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=26447"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:11:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:11:25","slug":"gift-post-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/gift-post-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post #2: Purple Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tissue<\/a>
Tissue Holder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t make a lot of gifts this year despite my best intentions, but I did make a few things for Friend Julie<\/a>. I bought some purple chair fabric and just started making a set of things for her. I didn’t really plan to, it just happened. it was fun to try and figure out how place the fabric on the projects so the chairs stood out.<\/p>\n

First, I made the tissue holder. Actually, I made two others as tests before I made this one, but it was the first gift that I made for her. I took a look at the tutorial that Valerie<\/a> uses and tried it myself. Easy peasy! Bonus: I had some tissue packs with which to fill it.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Chair Needlecase<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next was a needle case. I *think* Julie does some hand work, but I don’t really know, I am embarrassed to say. Now she is encouraged to do so because she has a needle case. \ud83d\ude09 If she is not a handworker, then perhaps I should start a campaign of buying Perl Cotton for her? \ud83d\ude09 With my luck, she will couch it to something on the machine.<\/p>\n

Before she opened it, she didn’t know what it was. I think she was confused because I re-used some Recchiuti<\/a> ribbon. I was pleased with the way the case looks tied up with the ribbon.<\/p>\n

I made some changes to the pattern. Are you surprised? Instead of sewing two pieces of quilting cotton together to make the needle portion of the needlecase, I cut and sewed one square of felt to hold the needles.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Chair Needlecase – open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also used felt for one side of the baby pincushion. I can’t quite seem to get the pincushion to finish straight, but I’ll keep working on that.<\/p>\n

Awhile ago I bought the Jeni Baker drawstring bag pattern<\/a> that has been so popular among the modern quilters. On her blog, In Color Order (I wish I had thought of that name!!!), is a tutorial<\/a> for one size of the bag. Anyway, I made several over the holidays and I decided at the very last minute, e.g. two hours before we were meeting (sigh!), to make her one to hold all of the goodies. When I say last minute, I mean last minute. DH had to lace the string into the holes while we drove. I didn’t even have a chance to take a phone, but Julie was kind enough to send me a couple.<\/p>\n

\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Chair Bag – closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Purple<\/a>
Purple Chair Bag – open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The inside is grey.<\/p>\n

I have a few other ideas for purple chair (and purple Pearl bracelets) fabrics accessories.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t make a lot of gifts this year despite my best intentions, but I did make a few things for Friend Julie. I bought some purple chair fabric and just started making a set of things for her. I didn’t really plan to, it just happened. it was fun to try and figure out … Continue reading “Gift Post #2: Purple Gifts”<\/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":[379],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-26447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-gifts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26447","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=26447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}