{"id":59350,"date":"2023-06-03T07:05:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T14:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=59350"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:07:55","slug":"finished-enigma-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/finished-enigma-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Chrysanthemum Enigma Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Finished: Enigma Bag – closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hooray! I finished and I had plenty of time to post it on the blog post to win a prize. I may not win, but hope springs eternal.<\/p>\n

I like this pouch. It’s interesting, yet normal, so surprising. It packs a punch and isn’t difficult to sew. There are some tricky bits, but it would be a boring sew, if the whole thing was easy.<\/p>\n

\"Finished:<\/a>
Finished: Enigma Bag – open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I said before<\/a>, this bag reminds me of the Sew Together Bags<\/a>. I think I would use it in the way I use the Sew Together Bags<\/a>, if it had more pockets. I do use most of the pockets<\/a> in my hand sewing dedicated Sew Together Bags<\/a>. It is possible that I can put a few things in this bag and use it for a dedicated travel hand sewing kit.<\/p>\n

\"Finished:<\/a>
Finished: Enigma bag – open flat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ll have to see. I have some scissors and a pincushion<\/a> I was gifted that I could put inside as a start.<\/p>\n

The bag opens flat, which makes for a nice tray that keeps items confined in the car. You can see the bottom piece in the picture I took after I cut all the pieces<\/a>. This will give you and idea of why it is flat.<\/p>\n

\"Finished:<\/a>
Finished: Enigma Bag – end view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The zipper, though, zips at a diagonal, which I think is part of the interesting bit of this bag. It also allows the bag to zip up small, be completely contained and then open out flat. Clever, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

I was concerned that there would be a hole where the zipper meets the bottom of the bag, but there isn’t. WHEW!<\/p>\n

I always wonder how Sara thinks up some of these bags. I am always curious about the designs, but then I wonder how she figures out the construction. I know enough to modify some bags, but I am not sure how I would figure out how to make a bag like this.<\/p>\n

\"Finished:<\/a>
Finished: Enigma Bag – accordion pocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As mentioned, there is one accordion pocket. It is fully contained like the Sew Together Bag and the Ultimate Carry All Bag<\/a>. This type of pocket allows the user to put something under the pocket like a ruler or quilt block (hand piecing?).<\/p>\n

This pocket went together really well and even though the zipper contrasts with the pocket, I think it looks nice. Yes, I added one of the charms I bought when we went shopping for the Retreat<\/a>. I bought a tool afterwards that makes it really easy to open the jump rings and connect the charms to the lobster clips. The tool is called Split Ring Tweezers<\/a>**. Total game changer!<\/p>\n

\"Finished:<\/a>
Finished: Enigma Bag: zipper end<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love the directions for the zipper tabs in this pattern. I really think my zipper tabs came out better than they ever have. In turn, this made my zipper look really good.<\/p>\n

As mentioned, this bag is part of Minikins Season 4<\/a>. Minikins patterns are only sold in bundles. This bundle has 12. There are at least two other projects I plan to make really soon.<\/p>\n

Now I am worried that I won’t want to finish the Hackney pouches from Minikins Season 3<\/a> I have cut out. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

You can see the other finished Enigma Bags on the blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hooray! I finished and I had plenty of time to post it on the blog post to win a prize. I may not win, but hope springs eternal. I like this pouch. It’s interesting, yet normal, so surprising. It packs a punch and isn’t difficult to sew. There are some tricky bits, but it would … Continue reading “Finished: Chrysanthemum Enigma Bag”<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[519],"tags":[128,540,493,255,544],"class_list":["post-59350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-completed-project","tag-enigma","tag-minikins-patterns","tag-project-bag","tag-sew-sweetness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59350","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=59350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63411,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59350\/revisions\/63411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}