{"id":54357,"date":"2022-01-02T06:58:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=54357"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T19:28:32","slug":"large-retreat-bag-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/large-retreat-bag-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift #3: Large Retreat Bag Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54358\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175615_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54358\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175615_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Large Retreat Pouch - Carrots\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175615_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175615_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175615_wm-sm.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Retreat Pouch &#8211; Carrots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I gave Julie this Large Retreat Pouch for her birthday the other day. This is the bag I made over Halloween weekend, but couldn&#8217;t show you since she reads this blog.<\/p>\n<p>The Retreat Bag is a <a href=\"https:\/\/emmalinebags.com\/products\/the-retreat-bag-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free pattern<\/a> from Emmaline Bags. It requires a frame and the frame is not free, but also not very expensive. The frame allows it to open all the way, providing easy access to the contents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54362\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175557_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54362\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175557_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Large Retreat pouch -aerial view\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175557_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175557_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_175557_wm-sm.jpg 832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Retreat pouch -aerial view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I realized around that time that I needed to get busy and start making any gifts that I wanted to make for the holidays. That weekend, this was one of two Large Retreat Pouches that I made. As I mentioned then, it was the first time I had made the large version of this pouch. I added a leash to this one, because I thought it would make the bag more useful.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54360\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_181850_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54360\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_181850_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Large Retreat pouch open -aerial view\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_181850_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_181850_wm-sm-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211031_181850_wm-sm.jpg 884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Retreat pouch open -aerial view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a pretty large bag. It would be great for a few balls of yarn and knitting needles as well as some EPP. I think it could also be used for a sponge bag or makeup kit.<\/p>\n<p>The lining actually fits pretty snugly though it looks baggy in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>I used some of my favorite purple fabrics since this was going to one of my favorite people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave Julie this Large Retreat Pouch for her birthday the other day. This is the bag I made over Halloween weekend, but couldn&#8217;t show you since she reads this blog. The Retreat Bag is a free pattern from Emmaline Bags. It requires a frame and the frame is not free, but also not very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/large-retreat-bag-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift #3: Large Retreat Bag Finished&#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":[128,539,316,488],"class_list":["post-54357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-completed-project","tag-emmaline-retreat-bag","tag-gifts","tag-pouch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54357","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=54357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54619,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54357\/revisions\/54619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}