{"id":54473,"date":"2021-11-16T07:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=54473"},"modified":"2021-11-14T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T19:08:16","slug":"trying-out-gift-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/trying-out-gift-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying Out Gift Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile ago, Mrs. K made me a bowl cozy.I never thought I needed such a thing, but I use it all the time and it is very helpful.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54475\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211113_185054_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54475\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211113_185054_wm-sm-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bowl Cozy in progress\" width=\"288\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211113_185054_wm-sm-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211113_185054_wm-sm-768x799.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/20211113_185054_wm-sm.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bowl Cozy in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Someone told me about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovelyandenough.com\/blog\/2020\/9\/bowl-cozy-tutorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bowl cozy tutorial<\/a> and reminded me of that great gift. I decided to try it out over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>They are fairly easy to make. The process goes quickly.<\/p>\n<p>My issue was sewing. I wasn&#8217;t sure whether to sew all the way to the corner, so I didn&#8217;t do it at first, because of the change in height of the layers. The batting bunched up as my sewing machine foot got to it, so I started sewing from the batting on the other corners. This looked bad, so I went back later and sewed to the edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile ago, Mrs. K made me a bowl cozy.I never thought I needed such a thing, but I use it all the time and it is very helpful. Someone told me about a bowl cozy tutorial and reminded me of that great gift. I decided to try it out over the weekend. They are fairly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/trying-out-gift-ideas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trying Out Gift Ideas&#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_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":[496],"tags":[365,316],"class_list":["post-54473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-accessories","tag-gifts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473","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=54473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54476,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473\/revisions\/54476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}