{"id":38925,"date":"2017-12-10T06:43:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=38925"},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:20:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T01:20:31","slug":"gift-post-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/gift-post-1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post #1 – 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons I didn’t make more progress on En Provence over the Thanksgiving Weekend<\/a> was that I needed to make a gift. The BAM Winter Extravaganza Palooza<\/a> Party and Swap was yesterday. I had decided to participate, but sewing time was short, so I picked a pattern I knew well and devoted a day to it.<\/p>\n

\"Jane<\/a>
Jane Market Tote for Mary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mary C wanted a grocery bag, so I got out the Jane Market Tote pattern and made it using some Carrie Bloomston fabrics that I have had for awhile. Her request was that the bag be made in green. The fabric is green, but tending towards teal\/turquoise so I hoped it would be ok. I made an effort to do a\u00a0 really nice job sewing. For once, I paid attention to the top stitching and did all that the pattern suggests.<\/p>\n

I sew my straps on differently than the pattern suggests, so I also did some top stitching with a decorative stitch at the top of the bag. I made a note to myself on the pattern to leave a little more of the strap in the seam allowance next time. I hope that the decorative stitching will keep the handles from pulling out.<\/p>\n

\"Jane<\/a>
Jane Market Tote: Amazing Piecing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I looked at the outside, I was shocked to see some of the amazing piecing. I can’t take much credit, though, because I couldn’t really have lined up the fabric any better, if I had tried. And I didn’t try!<\/p>\n

I don’t know how I did it, but was very pleased when I saw the way the joins had come together.<\/p>\n

\"Jane<\/a>
Jane Market Tote: Amazing piecing by pocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This amazing piecing happened in a couple of places. I knew that Mary would notice eventually so I showed her after she opened the gift and she was pleased. She appreciates stuff like that.<\/p>\n

The inside is plain. No pockets. I have to figure out where would be appropriate to add an inside pocket sometime. I didn’t do it for this iteration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons I didn’t make more progress on En Provence over the Thanksgiving Weekend was that I needed to make a gift. The BAM Winter Extravaganza Palooza Party and Swap was yesterday. I had decided to participate, but sewing time was short, so I picked a pattern I knew well and devoted a … Continue reading “Gift Post #1 – 2017”<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[434],"tags":[128,316,255,66],"class_list":["post-38925","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\/38925","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=38925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}