{"id":51646,"date":"2021-01-13T06:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=51646"},"modified":"2021-01-07T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:20:45","slug":"drawstring-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/drawstring-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawstring Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51610\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210103_124820_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51610\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210103_124820_wm-sm-280x300.jpg\" alt=\"Drawstring Bag - Project size\" width=\"280\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210103_124820_wm-sm-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210103_124820_wm-sm-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210103_124820_wm-sm.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 85vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawstring Bag &#8211; Project size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have made various sizes of the drawstring bags from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jenibakerpatterns.com\/product\/lined-drawstring-bag-pdf-pattern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeni Baker pattern<\/a> a number of times. I had an <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/drawstring-gift-bags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">idea to use them as gift bags<\/a> and, more recently, I made one to <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/gift-post-9-juggling-balls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">house some juggling balls<\/a>. At the last minute, I grabbed some Marcia Derse fabric that has been nagging me lately to make some more of these bags.<\/p>\n<p>I have made her bags using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incolororder.com\/2011\/10\/lined-drawstring-bag-tutorial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free tutorial<\/a> a few times, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.incolororder.com\/2014\/02\/how-to-make-patchwork-drawstring-bag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one for the juggling balls<\/a>, but also bought the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jenibakerpatterns.com\/product\/lined-drawstring-bag-pdf-pattern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pattern<\/a>, which has a number of different sizes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51611\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201231_163257_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51611\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201231_163257_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Drawstring Bag - Artist size\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201231_163257_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201231_163257_wm-sm-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20201231_163257_wm-sm.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawstring Bag &#8211; Artist size<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week I cut out two &#8211; the Artist size and the smaller Project size. They go together very quickly once cut and are really great for wrapping gifts.<\/p>\n<p>I do like that Marcia Derse squares fabric. I think it is a little hard to use, though, except for, maybe, on the back of a quilt. I think this is a good use for it.<\/p>\n<p>I bought some twill tape awhile ago. I used that for the handles, but am not 100% happy with the look. I may go back and make handles that match.<\/p>\n<p>Now that these are made, I am not sure how I will use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have made various sizes of the drawstring bags from the Jeni Baker pattern a number of times. I had an idea to use them as gift bags and, more recently, I made one to house some juggling balls. At the last minute, I grabbed some Marcia Derse fabric that has been nagging me lately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/drawstring-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drawstring 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":[496],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-51646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","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\/51646","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=51646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51652,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51646\/revisions\/51652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}