{"id":47268,"date":"2019-10-17T07:04:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=47268"},"modified":"2019-10-16T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T01:15:00","slug":"retreat-project-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/retreat-project-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat Project pt.2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I originally planned to publish this post on September 19. Somehow, the time got away from me. While I did finish the Running with Scissors tote<\/a>, this post has mostly to do with working with vinyl. I thought it might still be of interest.<\/p>\n

\"Marking<\/a>
Marking vinyl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One thing that happened while I was working on my project<\/a> was I had to develop some tips\/tricks of my own.<\/p>\n

The pattern, in general, is really good. It says, however, in the vinyl pocket part of the pattern to mark the vinyl to make smaller pockets. It didn’t say how<\/em> to mark the vinyl. I didn’t have access to the video at the time, which may have some tips. I didn’t want to use a Micron pen, though I know that the ink can be washed off of vinyl pretty easily. I also don’t have one of those wash away pens, so I decided tape would work. I used tape to mark the lines I needed to sew along.<\/p>\n

\"Sew<\/a>
Sew along the tape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I sewed right next to the tape. I didn’t want to go through it, because that would create a mess. This was tricky, because I also needed to sew with the vinyl covered by tissue. As I have talked about many times, you need to take care when working with vinyl. I didn’t have my teflon foot with me (duh, oversight), so I used the wrapper from the vinyl. You don’t need much, but you do need longish strips. The only issue was that there was a little residue left on the vinyl from the tape. I’ll clean it off later.<\/p>\n

\"Sewing<\/a>
Sewing over zippers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The zippers from ByAnnie are gorgeous. You can imagine that I was a little annoyed when I had to sew over the zipper ends.<\/p>\n

I had to open the zipper – move the slide to the center, so it wouldn’t end up on the wrong side of the sewing line. That left the end of the zipper tape flooping around. I wanted the zipper teeth that would remain in the bag (not cut off) to be as close together as possible. I held it together with some tape.<\/p>\n

This project has a lot of steps, but it does go together very well.<\/p>\n

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I originally planned to publish this post on September 19. Somehow, the time got away from me. While I did finish the Running with Scissors tote, this post has mostly to do with working with vinyl. I thought it might still be of interest. One thing that happened while I was working on my project … Continue reading “Retreat Project pt.2”<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[477],"tags":[255,127,482,66,346],"class_list":["post-47268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-project-bag","tag-retreat","tag-running-with-scissors-tote","tag-tote-bags","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268","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=47268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}