{"id":46448,"date":"2019-06-23T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T14:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=46448"},"modified":"2019-06-22T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:17:11","slug":"two-gift-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/two-gift-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Gift Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapping gifts in paper is one of my least favorite activities. Gift wrapping is tolerable when I use gift bags, but still not a favorite activity. I envy the people who wrap gifts as an art form and wish I had a friend who would take over that role for me.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I had a whole bunch of stocking stuffers to wrap with very little time to do it. It was torture. I did it and my mom entertained me while I worked, but it was still torture.<\/p>\n<p>Since I buy stocking stuffers all year long, I decided I would wrap them as I bought them. It is going ok.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46461\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190621_174939sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190621_174939sm-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"Two Green Gift Bags\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190621_174939sm-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190621_174939sm-768x700.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190621_174939sm.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two Green Gift Bags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I bought some socks as a gift earlier this year and I am finally making progress on wrapping these gifts. It took me forever, but I did it. I did the work at Sew Day with Gerre and it didn&#8217;t even seem like I was making gift bags. Gift bags can be tedious and these were a bit fiddly, but chatting while I sewed made it ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrapping gifts in paper is one of my least favorite activities. Gift wrapping is tolerable when I use gift bags, but still not a favorite activity. I envy the people who wrap gifts as an art form and wish I had a friend who would take over that role for me. Last year I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/two-gift-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Gift 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":[477],"tags":[8,19],"class_list":["post-46448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-christmas","tag-gift-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\/46448","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=46448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}