{"id":44978,"date":"2019-02-03T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=44978"},"modified":"2019-01-31T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:47:50","slug":"maureens-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/maureens-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen&#8217;s Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen is stepping down from her role as Supreme Leader of CQFA. I decided that we needed to give her a gift, so I organized the bag gift that I do at BAM.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44959\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15488971717331442936002877773134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15488971717331442936002877773134-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maureen's Jane Market Tote\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15488971717331442936002877773134-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15488971717331442936002877773134-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15488971717331442936002877773134-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15488971717331442936002877773134-1200x1718.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 85vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maureen&#8217;s Jane Market Tote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I got started on it kind of late, so the bag I made is a simple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/jane-market-tote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane Market Tote<\/a>. I thought I had some African Fabric, which Maureen would have liked, but I have been cleaning out my fabric bins and that must have gone to a better home in a recent purge.<\/p>\n<p>The project didn&#8217;t go super smoothly. I had to rip out the whole thing once I had sewn the outside and lining together and done the topstitching. Sigh. Somehow the linking was way too large and was sagging on the inside. I couldn&#8217;t live with it, so I ripped it all out. I had to trim the lining and then sew it all back together. It wasn&#8217;t terrible, but not ideal either. I think I must have turned the lining the wrong way when I boxed the corners. Hopefully, I will remember to check next time!<\/p>\n<p>The members will bring notes and gifts with which to fill the bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen is stepping down from her role as Supreme Leader of CQFA. I decided that we needed to give her a gift, so I organized the bag gift that I do at BAM. I got started on it kind of late, so the bag I made is a simple Jane Market Tote. I thought I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/maureens-bag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maureen&#8217;s Bag&#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":[477],"tags":[114,316,130],"class_list":["post-44978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-cqfa","tag-gifts","tag-jane-market-tote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978","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=44978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}