{"id":570,"date":"2008-09-01T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/latest-fashion-in-tote-bags\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:33:35","slug":"latest-fashion-in-tote-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/latest-fashion-in-tote-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Fashion in Tote Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on some totes this weekend. The Chocolate Flower tote was completed this summer (wrote about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/what-i-made-on-my-summer-vacation\/\" target=\"_blank\">July 26<\/a>), but something was missing. In general, I am also not liking the big blobs of fabric that the big outside pockets tend to become. I found a random piece of ribbon with the perfect colors. I used it to embellish the tote&#8217;s outside pocket last night. When I auditioned it, I thought the ribbon made the green in the flower print stand out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwlB43gC3I\/AAAAAAAAB7g\/XHKdzS5eVCs\/s1600-h\/PICT2230sm.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241104780727683954\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwlB43gC3I\/AAAAAAAAB7g\/XHKdzS5eVCs\/s320\/PICT2230sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In future totes I want to work on making the outside pocket less of a big blob.<\/p>\n<p>My newest tote is the eggplant\/lemon tote. I started it on my summer vacation, but didn&#8217;t work on it again until this weekend, .<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwlCOziRjI\/AAAAAAAAB7o\/d0ry6SA-ZKw\/s1600-h\/PICT2226sm.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241104786616632882\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwlCOziRjI\/AAAAAAAAB7o\/d0ry6SA-ZKw\/s320\/PICT2226sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The lemon flower fabric is from a recent Moda collection (Fresh Squeezed by Sandy Gervais??). I love the colors in the vegee\/eggplant fabric. It is a very fun fabric that I would, probably, never use in a quilt.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwlCEVXbEI\/AAAAAAAAB7w\/CKdw0hCQ0Pc\/s1600-h\/PICT2229sm.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241104783805738050\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwlCEVXbEI\/AAAAAAAAB7w\/CKdw0hCQ0Pc\/s320\/PICT2229sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere is the inside of the bag. I have started to put large pockets on the insides of all the bags in addition to the small pocket. They are very useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on some totes this weekend. The Chocolate Flower tote was completed this summer (wrote about it on July 26), but something was missing. In general, I am also not liking the big blobs of fabric that the big outside pockets tend to become. I found a random piece of ribbon with the perfect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/latest-fashion-in-tote-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest Fashion in Tote 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":[388],"tags":[255,66],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-project-bag","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\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}