{"id":57301,"date":"2023-01-17T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=57301"},"modified":"2022-12-31T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T02:22:48","slug":"julies-problem-zipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/julies-problem-zipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie&#8217;s Problem Zipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57304\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_193124_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57304\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_193124_wm-sm-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Take a Stand - Problem Zipper\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_193124_wm-sm-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_193124_wm-sm-728x1024.jpg 728w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_193124_wm-sm-768x1080.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_193124_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 85vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take a Stand &#8211; Problem Zipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In September I did a gift inventory as I worked on various projects for the holidays. It takes time to make gifts, so I do periodic inventories so I am not scrambling at the last second. During this excavation, I found that the zipper on Julie&#8217;s Take a Stand bag had the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/take-a-stand-zipper-repair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same problem as mine<\/a>! Fortunately, I realized this in September, not November 30, and took care of the problem right away. It really only took me a few minutes, since I had already fixed the issue on my bag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57303\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_183309_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57303\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_183309_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Take a Stand - Fixed Zipper\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_183309_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_183309_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_183309_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take a Stand &#8211; Fixed Zipper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I took 15 minutes while DH made dinner and fixed the zipper. I was able to tighten up the size of the zipper tab at the same time, which made me feel better. I don&#8217;t like zipper tabs that are big and floppy. I realize that the one on the end was not big and floppy before I fixed it, but it was not the right size either.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57307\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_192816_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57307\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_192816_wm-sm-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Take a Stand opens wide\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_192816_wm-sm-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_192816_wm-sm-644x1024.jpg 644w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_192816_wm-sm-768x1221.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220917_192816_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 85vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take a Stand opens wide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now the bag opens wide. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>And I was able to admire the inside again, which came out very well. I am very proud of it.<\/p>\n<p>I really felt irritated with myself. What was the deal with those two zipper heads? If I did it twice, there had to be something in the pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September I did a gift inventory as I worked on various projects for the holidays. It takes time to make gifts, so I do periodic inventories so I am not scrambling at the last second. During this excavation, I found that the zipper on Julie&#8217;s Take a Stand bag had the same problem as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/julies-problem-zipper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Julie&#8217;s Problem Zipper&#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":[519],"tags":[513,520],"class_list":["post-57301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-byannie-pattern","tag-repair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57301","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=57301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57310,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57301\/revisions\/57310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}