{"id":428,"date":"2008-03-02T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/follow-up-series-of-bags\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:24:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T19:24:46","slug":"follow-up-series-of-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/follow-up-series-of-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up: Series of Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you didn’t have a chance to read some of the recent comments, Laume<\/a> wondered about the sturdiness of the Eco Market Tote that I discussed in a previous post<\/a>, by asking “I’ve been wanting to make some bags for awhile now and have been resistant to actually buying a pattern – a bag – how hard can that be I think. But I know I really do need a pattern and so instead I just talk about making a bag some day. Are these sturdy? Are the shoulder straps comfortable when they’re weighted down? They all look wonderful, especially the first one with the big art deco print.”<\/p>\n

TFQ saw that comments and answered:<\/p>\n

“I’ve been using the red\/white\/black one for a couple of days and the straps are pretty comfortable — not cutting into my shoulder despite my walking a mile and a half to work with about 10 pounds of stuff in it.<\/p>\n

I think the straps would be less comfortable if we had not made them wider, and interfacing the handles for the lighter-weight fabric definitely helps. The bags are completely lined — in fact, they are reversible — which helps with the sturdiness factor, but for a bag you’re going to use to haul around a lot, I agree with Jaye, choose a fabric with a little body to it, like heavier linen or a lightweight home dec fabric. ”<\/p>\n

The Eco Market tote comes from Favorite Things<\/a>. Watch out for the errors described in the previous post. The company said that they have fixed them, but the patterns with errors are still in quilt shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you didn’t have a chance to read some of the recent comments, Laume wondered about the sturdiness of the Eco Market Tote that I discussed in a previous post, by asking “I’ve been wanting to make some bags for awhile now and have been resistant to actually buying a pattern – a bag … Continue reading “Follow-up: Series of Bags”<\/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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[388],"tags":[86,255,340,66],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-project-bag","tag-series","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\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55693,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/55693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}