{"id":27132,"date":"2015-03-10T06:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=27132"},"modified":"2016-11-04T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T09:19:25","slug":"more-lanyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/more-lanyards\/","title":{"rendered":"More Lanyards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Awhile ago, I talked about the lanyard I made for a swap and put up a sort of tutorial<\/a> about making it. That Orphan Block lanyard came out pretty well and I was pleased.<\/p>\n

As BAMQG is part of the Modern Quilt Guild, I got a pin. It has been lying on my desk and I finally decided to make a lanyard. I didn’t want to do a complete orphan block lanyard this time, because of the seam allowances. To much piecing makes lumps. I wanted it to be interesting so I used some of the larger scraps from my cutting table.<\/p>\n

\"Lumps<\/a>
Lumps and floops<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It went together pretty well and relatively quickly. Still: UGH! I don’t like the way it looks.<\/p>\n

\"Fresh<\/a>
Fresh Fruit Lanyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is cute and cheerful and not terrible, but the seam allowances made it lumpier than I wanted. I forgot to make the upper loop insert a smaller width than the main part of the lanyard, so the lump is even more prominent.<\/p>\n

True to form, I let the process options rumble around in my head as I went about my business and decided to make another, starting much more simply: with just one strip of fabric. I used the\u00a0By The Sea by Gillian Fullard\/ London Portfolio Series by Michael Miller fabric. This is the same fabric I used in the recent Ocean Going Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Ocean<\/a>
Ocean Going Lanyard Upper Loop detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The upper loop, which I like so the name tag is near my face and not even with my belly button, confounded me for awhile until I realized that I could make it much smoother by making it from part of the hemmed fabric. I folded up the length of hemmed fabric rather that inserting a different piece. The loop also turned out to be much smaller.<\/p>\n

The tricky part was to make sure the metal circle was in the right place. That took a bit of fiddling and trying, but wasn’t difficult.<\/p>\n

Of course, using the length of original piece to make the loop led to length issues for the overall lanyard. I still haven’t quite worked out the best length. Still, that little trick made a much smoother upper loop AND, and as an added bonus, prevented the loop from being too long and floopy.<\/p>\n

\"Ocean<\/a>
Ocean Going Lanyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now my BAMQG pins and things are ensconced on my new lanyard and I can’t wait to give it a trial run.<\/p>\n

Of course, I have to make another just to perfect my technique and, possibly, write another tutorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awhile ago, I talked about the lanyard I made for a swap and put up a sort of tutorial about making it. That Orphan Block lanyard came out pretty well and I was pleased. As BAMQG is part of the Modern Quilt Guild, I got a pin. It has been lying on my desk and … Continue reading “More Lanyards”<\/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":[379],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-27132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","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\/27132","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=27132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}