{"id":36817,"date":"2017-05-20T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=36817"},"modified":"2017-05-13T22:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T05:12:15","slug":"walker-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/walker-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36728\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480232635..jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480232635.-300x195.jpeg\" alt=\"Walker Bag n.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480232635.-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480232635.-768x499.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480232635.-1024x666.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480232635.-1200x780.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walker Bag n.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAM had a Charity Sew Day on May 6th. Peggy and Michelle created kits and a pattern for walker bags for a local nursing home. I made three, though not without mishap and only with the help of SIL.<\/p>\n<p>The first one I made was the pink and purple version. I liked the fabric combination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36729\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480304652..jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480304652.-300x205.jpeg\" alt=\"Patriotic Walker Bag\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480304652.-300x205.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480304652.-768x526.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480304652.-1024x701.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480304652.-1200x822.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patriotic Walker Bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While SIL turned the first one (the first seam is right sides together), I started in on a second. I wanted to kind of do an assembly line and get as many as possible completed. I don&#8217;t use much patriotic fabric, but I did like the flags. They are cheerful and a little jaunty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36726\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480044295..jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36726\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480044295.-300x218.jpeg\" alt=\"Walker Bags n.3\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480044295.-300x218.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480044295.-768x557.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480044295.-1024x742.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/wp-1494480044295.-1200x870.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walker Bags n.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was kind of confused about the various seam allowances so I did have to rip a bit. SIL also ripped for me some.<\/p>\n<p>I stuck a ruler in one of the pockets to show the depth. It was a little too tall for the pocket, but I am sure they will work for smaller items.<\/p>\n<p>All around it was a good day. We finished about 25 bags and there was a lot of laughter, which is important as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAM had a Charity Sew Day on May 6th. Peggy and Michelle created kits and a pattern for walker bags for a local nursing home. I made three, though not without mishap and only with the help of SIL. The first one I made was the pink and purple version. I liked the fabric combination. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/walker-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walker Bags&#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":[137,355,413],"class_list":["post-36817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good","tag-sew-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36817","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=36817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}