{"id":54123,"date":"2021-10-03T07:20:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=54123"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:29:56","slug":"my-ucab-exterior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/my-ucab-exterior\/","title":{"rendered":"My UCAB Exterior"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a day off the other day and really wanted to finish my UCAB.<\/p>\n

\"UCAB<\/a>
UCAB Lining<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In order to finish the exterior I had to sew the lining. I decided to put in an ironing pad even though I don’t think I will use it much. I have my new Mini Maker Case<\/a>, so I may actually use it. I will try it out regardless.<\/p>\n

I had to cut all of the pieces for the lining before assembling the interior. Construction of the lining went pretty smoothly.<\/p>\n

\"UCAB<\/a>
UCAB Exterior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another task was to finish the exterior. I sewed the three parts together (back, front and bottom), which was pretty easy. I did have some trouble with the pleather bottom sticking to my machine’s bed. I held up both edges and kept as much of it off the machine bed as I could. Then I sort of shoved it through, but will need to rethink that strategy in the future. It doesn’t make for nice stitching.<\/p>\n

Laid out like the photo left doesn’t do anything for the overall look of the bag, but you know how it is. It always looks worse before it looks better.<\/p>\n

\"UCAB<\/a>
UCAB Exterior – standing up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted the bottom to be flat, so I sewed two layers of Peltex to the pleather – kind of like quilting it. I was careful to keep the Peltex away from the edges so that the edges wouldn’t be too thick. I don’t know if that strategy will work, but it seems to be flatter than I could have hoped.<\/p>\n

To encourage the bottom get into (and stay into) the right shape I thought of sewing a seam along the edges where the front and back fold up. The ironing pad extends into the bottom of the bag, so sewing a seam would create a bump. If I want to do that, I’ll probably need to omit the ironing pad.<\/p>\n

I also cut out the sides (from a template) and put those together. They are an odd shape, so I used scissors. I also pressed the folds into the places where the pockets will be inserted.<\/p>\n

I got a fair amount done, but didn’t finish. Progress! Not finished, but progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a day off the other day and really wanted to finish my UCAB. In order to finish the exterior I had to sew the lining. I decided to put in an ironing pad even though I don’t think I will use it much. I have my new Mini Maker Case, so I may … Continue reading “My UCAB Exterior”<\/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":[137,72,255,483],"class_list":["post-54123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-bamqg","tag-group-project","tag-project-bag","tag-ultimate-carry-all-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\/54123","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=54123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54144,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54123\/revisions\/54144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}