{"id":36677,"date":"2017-05-11T06:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=36677"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:50:05","slug":"sunflower-big-tote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/sunflower-big-tote\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower Big Tote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36717\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479178307..jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479178307.-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Sunflower Tote\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479178307.-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479178307.-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479178307.-1200x1600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunflower Tote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have decided that I like that Big Tote pattern from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/book-review-make-it-take-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Make It Take It<\/a> book.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the carrier for the other gifts, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/sunflower-napkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloth napkins<\/a> I talked about earlier this week, DH will present to the NDGW Grand President. This is the first one I made with just two fabrics. No mosaic piecing. The bold print works very well, but I think smaller prints would look better using the mosaic piecing method I used for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/more-on-big-patchwork-tote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">second one<\/a> I made.<\/p>\n<p>There are some things I would like to try, e.g. pockets. In my mind pockets are essential. This isn&#8217;t a huge tote, so I envision it being used as a handy bag to put a few things in when you weren&#8217;t planning on buying anything.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36716\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479093776..jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479093776.-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Kaffe print inside\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479093776.-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479093776.-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479093776.-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494479093776.-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaffe print inside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist adding a little of my own personality to the inside.<\/p>\n<p>You can see some of the other gifts inside the bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have decided that I like that Big Tote pattern from the Make It Take It book. This will be the carrier for the other gifts, such as the cloth napkins I talked about earlier this week, DH will present to the NDGW Grand President. This is the first one I made with just two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/sunflower-big-tote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sunflower Big Tote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[434],"tags":[128,316,255,66],"class_list":["post-36677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-completed-project","tag-gifts","tag-project-bag","tag-tote-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\/36677","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}