{"id":48367,"date":"2020-01-28T07:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48367"},"modified":"2020-01-23T18:27:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:27:38","slug":"officer-thank-yous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/officer-thank-yous\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer Thank Yous"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48332\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48332\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Gifts: Speedy Pouches\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-768x1084.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-1088x1536.jpg 1088w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-1451x2048.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-1200x1694.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793110649778468996115893572828-scaled.jpg 1813w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Gifts: Speedy Pouches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/speedy-pouches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other day I talked<\/a> about finishing up the Officer gifts that I was making. They were finally finished on Friday night before the meeting. Fortunately for me, DH didn&#8217;t get home until late, so I had some extra time to work on them.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, these pouches are fairly speedy to make.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48331\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48331\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Gifts: Speedy Pouches-ending\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wp-15793102396638611246187441944455-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Gifts: Speedy Pouches-ending<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am pretty happy with the way they came out except for the ending. That was my fault as I stopped reading the directions and just finished them.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about using this pattern for the inside of the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/ultimate-carry-all-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCAB<\/a>, also as mentioned so I have been mulling over how to add a leash. It doesn&#8217;t work with the binding used in the pattern, but the pattern calls for a super long piece of binding, most of which is not used. I could turn the ending in to a leash instead of cutting it off. That would also alleviate the problem of one of the ends. I might try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I talked about finishing up the Officer gifts that I was making. They were finally finished on Friday night before the meeting. Fortunately for me, DH didn&#8217;t get home until late, so I had some extra time to work on them. As mentioned, these pouches are fairly speedy to make. I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/officer-thank-yous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Officer Thank Yous&#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":[486],"tags":[137,316,255],"class_list":["post-48367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bamqg","tag-gifts","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\/48367","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=48367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}