{"id":40106,"date":"2018-04-07T07:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T14:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=40106"},"modified":"2022-12-31T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T01:32:56","slug":"zip-away-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/zip-away-organizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Zip Away Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40083\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522525154949..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522525154949.-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zip Away Organizer - closed\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522525154949.-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522525154949.-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522525154949.-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zip Away Organizer &#8211; closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Frankly, I never thought I could make something like this. This is another pattern from the Crafty Gemini Organizer Club. It is one of the bonus patterns. I think it would make a great gift.<\/p>\n<p>I did, though, and while I struggled with some parts, it wasn&#8217;t as hard as I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I am becoming a zipper expert. I can certainly get my zipper foot on and off the machine (screwdriver is involved) with lightening speed. I can now shorten zippers with confidence (remember my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/gift-post-3-sweet-harmony-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fit about the zipper shortening<\/a> with the Sweet Harmony bag?). I have put in 16 zippers, I think, in the last month. WHEW!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40081\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522523128745..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522523128745.-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Zip Away Organizer - open\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522523128745.-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522523128745.-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522523128745.-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/wp-1522523128745.-1200x889.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zip Away Organizer &#8211; open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am trying to think what I can put in this bag.<\/p>\n<p>I reversed the pockets by accident, so the vinyl pocket is on the wrong side. It isn&#8217;t so wrong that I felt I had to rip it out, but I will get a zipper pull to help pull the zipper away from the spine.<\/p>\n<p>The fabric for the outside and the inside slip pocket are both from the Cosmo Cricket line. I made the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2013\/stepping-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stepping Stone<\/a> quilt out of that fabric. I am out of the typewriter key fabric in black, which is a shame, but I will use another black that works. I used the stripe on the inside, because it works so well in my handbag (purchased, by Pixie Mood). I&#8217;ll use it again in other projects in this club.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I never thought I could make something like this. This is another pattern from the Crafty Gemini Organizer Club. It is one of the bonus patterns. I think it would make a great gift. I did, though, and while I struggled with some parts, it wasn&#8217;t as hard as I thought. I feel like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/zip-away-organizer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zip Away Organizer&#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":[453],"tags":[128,515,461,72,255],"class_list":["post-40106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-completed-project","tag-crafty-gemini","tag-crafty-gemini-organizer-club","tag-group-project","tag-project-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106","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=40106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56297,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106\/revisions\/56297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}