{"id":5552,"date":"2010-05-19T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2016-08-13T22:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:43:04","slug":"lush-gift-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/lush-gift-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Lush Gift Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I buy fabric specifically destined for and make gift bags is so that I don&#8217;t have to wrap gifts using paper. I also like to have an excuse to buy holiday fabric that I know I will never use for a quilt. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabmo.org\" target=\"_blank\">FabMo<\/a> has created a whole new aesthetic for me for gift bags.<\/p>\n<p>At the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqfa.org\" target=\"_blank\">CQFA<\/a> meeting, Bron brought a few pieces of FabMo fabric and I scooped up a couple. You&#8217;ll see some of them soon, but I already made the gift bag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5555\" style=\"width: 149px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6517sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5555\" title=\"Lush Gift Bag\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6517sm-149x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lush Gift Bag\" width=\"149\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6517sm-149x300.jpg 149w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6517sm-509x1024.jpg 509w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6517sm.jpg 1289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 85vw, 149px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lush Gift Bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This fabric is some kind of velvet like material and it changes the whole look of the gift bag. I didn&#8217;t take any chances when sewing it. I used the new open toe walking foot because I am not familiar with how this fabric acts in the sewing process.<\/p>\n<p>The ribbon is also from another gift.<\/p>\n<p>It is an odd shape, because I just used the shape of the sample and folded it in half. The edges were serged and I wanted to maintain that integrity.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I like about it is that it looks really special. That is a good reminder for me that the fabric really makes the piece &#8211; especially in other types of sewn accessories that don&#8217;t have the opportunity for quilting or embellishment, etc. I realize that the maker could do both on a gift bag, of course, if the design were different.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5554\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5554\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5554\" title=\"Lush Gift Bag detail\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6518-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lush Gift Bag detail\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6518-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/PICT6518-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lush Gift Bag detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I actually think that gift bags would be a good way to try out new techniques, feet, stitches on your sewing machine, free motion quilting, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I buy fabric specifically destined for and make gift bags is so that I don&#8217;t have to wrap gifts using paper. I also like to have an excuse to buy holiday fabric that I know I will never use for a quilt. FabMo has created a whole new aesthetic for me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/lush-gift-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lush Gift Bags&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[390],"tags":[315,19,86,105],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-fabric","tag-gift-bags","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-reuserecycle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}