{"id":30299,"date":"2015-12-09T05:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=30299"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:37:16","slug":"even-more-gift-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/even-more-gift-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Gift Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t intend to make more gift bags. However,\u00a0 I cleared off my cutting\/work table and found some cuffs waiting to become Christmas pillowcases. I stared at them and finally decided to make them into gift bags instead. I am done with pillowcases for this year, I think.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30302\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0761sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0761sm-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Formerly cuffs, now gift bags\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0761sm-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0761sm.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Formerly cuffs, now gift bags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They are long skinny bags, but what the heck?<\/p>\n<p>The one on the right will fit a gift I have to give on Saturday at the BAMQG gift exchange, which is great. I am sure I will find a use for the other one. Pretty soon I am going to have to do a gift inventory and see what I still have to make or buy. at that time, I will wrap gifts with bags I have handy.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about gift bags, this reminds me that I have a huge gift to wrap. I don&#8217;t think I want to make a gift bag that big that will only be used once, or very occasionally. I might drape some Christmas fabric over it and tie a ribbon around it and call it done. Did I mention I found another stash of Christmas fabric when I was looking for beads for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/cqfa-december-2015-meeting-atcs\/\" target=\"_blank\">ATCs<\/a>?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30301\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0754sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0754sm-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"More Christmas wrapping\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0754sm-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0754sm.jpg 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More Christmas wrapping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also made a few bags from the leftover lights fabrics. These are so cheerful.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been making gift bags?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t intend to make more gift bags. However,\u00a0 I cleared off my cutting\/work table and found some cuffs waiting to become Christmas pillowcases. I stared at them and finally decided to make them into gift bags instead. I am done with pillowcases for this year, I think. They are long skinny bags, but what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/even-more-gift-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even More 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":[379],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-30299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-gift-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\/30299","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=30299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}