{"id":59966,"date":"2023-08-09T06:48:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=59966"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:22:47","slug":"enlarged-i-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/enlarged-i-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlarged I Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am finally attempting to enlarge an <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/i-spy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Spy pouch<\/a>. I decided that last week, one evening after work, was the day to do it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59964\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230804_181418_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59964\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230804_181418_wm-sm-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Blazing Star I Spy in process\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230804_181418_wm-sm-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230804_181418_wm-sm-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230804_181418_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blazing Star I Spy in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sara&#8217;s directions work well regardless of the size. Sizes are always the challenge. I used the widths, but extended the lengths to accommodate the <a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/blazingstar-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blazing Star bag<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/acrylic-template-blazingstar-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acrylic templates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59971\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230805_074640-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59971\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230805_074640-sm-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"True Colors Wildflower\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230805_074640-sm-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230805_074640-sm-768x788.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230805_074640-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 85vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">True Colors Wildflower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I learned a lot. One thing is to cut the back and lining back after you have put the front together. Normally, having everything cut and fused is a good thing, but in this case, I made so many cutting mistakes that I ran out of lining fabric.<\/p>\n<p>On my next enlarged I Spy, I will put the sides and the vinyl together, then cut the top and bottom, install the zipper, then cut the back and lining back. I don&#8217;t know enough about enlarging bags to do anything different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am finally attempting to enlarge an I Spy pouch. I decided that last week, one evening after work, was the day to do it. Sara&#8217;s directions work well regardless of the size. Sizes are always the challenge. I used the widths, but extended the lengths to accommodate the Blazing Star bag acrylic templates. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/enlarged-i-spy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enlarged I Spy&#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_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":[519],"tags":[524,493,488,255,544],"class_list":["post-59966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-i-spy","tag-minikins-patterns","tag-pouch","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\/59966","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=59966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59976,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59966\/revisions\/59976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}