{"id":52268,"date":"2021-03-18T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=52268"},"modified":"2025-04-17T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T01:08:21","slug":"superbloom-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/superbloom-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Superbloom Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52272\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Anna-Maria-Honorable-Mention.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52272\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Anna-Maria-Honorable-Mention-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Maria Honorable Mention\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Anna-Maria-Honorable-Mention-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Anna-Maria-Honorable-Mention.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Maria Honorable Mention<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My first attempt at putting the exterior of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/superbloom-tote-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superbloom Tote<\/a> together was unsuccessful. I was disappointed and distraught. I left the bag for much too long and considered not finishing it.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, I thought about quitting.<\/p>\n<p>This was a terrible idea, because I have other fabric that I want to use to make another one. AND the fussy cutting I did with the Linework fabric is fantastic. The fussy cutting on <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/superbloom-side-pockets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">those side pockets<\/a> was fantastic. Finally, after mulling a lot, I realized that I had been working on the bag without the benefit of the video. Many of Sara Lawson&#8217;s pattern packs come with the pattern and a video. The video is very helpful. She has improved the videos by tagging them to steps in the pattern. I was able to navigate right to putting the exterior together easily.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52271\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210314_173514_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52271\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210314_173514_wm-sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Superbloom Exterior\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210314_173514_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210314_173514_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210314_173514_wm-sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/20210314_173514_wm-sm.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superbloom Exterior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watching the video really helped and I was able to get over the hump of adding the side pockets and the straps to the exterior. There was one step I did a little wrong, so I had some ripping to do, but it came out really well.<\/p>\n<p>I am well on my way!<\/p>\n<p>Next is the lining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first attempt at putting the exterior of the Superbloom Tote together was unsuccessful. I was disappointed and distraught. I left the bag for much too long and considered not finishing it. Briefly, I thought about quitting. This was a terrible idea, because I have other fabric that I want to use to make another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/superbloom-returns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superbloom Returns&#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":[255,544,549,66],"class_list":["post-52268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-project-bag","tag-sew-sweetness","tag-superbloom","tag-tote-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\/52268","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=52268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52273,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52268\/revisions\/52273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}