{"id":49733,"date":"2020-06-13T07:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T14:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=49733"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:23:28","slug":"useful-notion-purple-thang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/useful-notion-purple-thang\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Notion: Purple Thang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long ago I received another (yes, I had one!) That Purple Thang<\/a>** in my Modern Handmade subscription box<\/a>. I can always add extra tools to my Go Bag, but this was a tool that I never used – or didn’t remember using. I put it in my notions tub, right next to my sewing machine. Since I received it, I have found several uses for it, most specifically threading elastic through channels on face masks.<\/p>\n

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Purple Thang with Elastic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The video pattern<\/a> I used last<\/a> for face masks has a channel on the sides. The designer easily threads elastic through this channel, but I couldn’t keep it from bunching up. The Purple Thang has a large eye and is generally skinny, so I was able to use it. I threaded the elastic through the eye and then inserted The Purple Thang into the channel. It worked really well.<\/p>\n

I also used it to poke corners carefully out in a gift bag I made.<\/p>\n

So, I have found that, despite the stupid name, this is a useful tool.<\/p>\n

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Not long ago I received another (yes, I had one!) That Purple Thang** in my Modern Handmade subscription box. I can always add extra tools to my Go Bag, but this was a tool that I never used – or didn’t remember using. I put it in my notions tub, right next to my sewing … Continue reading “Useful Notion: Purple Thang”<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[486],"tags":[542,361,345],"class_list":["post-49733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-product-review","tag-products","tag-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49733","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=49733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65314,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49733\/revisions\/65314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}