{"id":61161,"date":"2023-12-21T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=61161"},"modified":"2023-12-20T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T01:29:31","slug":"sewing-with-cyndi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/sewing-with-cyndi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing with Cyndi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Cyndi&#8217;s house and sewed the other day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61149\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153116_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61149\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153116_wm-sm-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"Enigma Bags in process\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153116_wm-sm-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153116_wm-sm-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153116_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enigma Bags in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We planned to make the Enigma Bag (<a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/minikins-season-four-12-pattern-video-bundle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sew Sweetness, Minikins Season 4<\/a>) together back in November, but life happened, so we didn&#8217;t get to it until last week.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that the Enigma Bag might be my new Hackney Bag &#8211; that is a bag I make for gifts for various people. I like it a lot. I especially like the diagonal zipper and how it opens flat. I haven&#8217;t given them to enough people to have feedback.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61147\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153108_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61147\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153108_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sewing with Cyndi\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153108_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153108_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153108_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sewing with Cyndi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t feel like lugging my machine along, so Cyndi kindly let me use her machine. She has a Janome Skyline and I have to say that it was really nice to use for sewing. The bobbin loading was amazing. I might need to look into getting a new machine. That&#8217;s a story for another day.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I moved in quite completely. My pattern and pieces are on the right and my go bag is on the left.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61148\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153113_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61148\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153113_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sewing with Cyndi - spread to the right\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153113_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153113_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231216_153113_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sewing with Cyndi &#8211; spread to the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had done all the cutting and prep for my bag, so I worked on cutting out the Goldenrod book cover, which I decided to make at the last minute, while Cyndi finished her prep. I started a bit before and was able to get to the point in the pattern where I installed the main zipper. I wasn&#8217;t happy with it, though and stopped, because I needed to contemplate the zipper in the overall scheme of making the bag.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great day and I enjoyed sewing with someone else very much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Cyndi&#8217;s house and sewed the other day. We planned to make the Enigma Bag (Sew Sweetness, Minikins Season 4) together back in November, but life happened, so we didn&#8217;t get to it until last week. I have to admit that the Enigma Bag might be my new Hackney Bag &#8211; that is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/sewing-with-cyndi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sewing with Cyndi&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[519],"tags":[330,353],"class_list":["post-61161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-other-artists","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161","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=61161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61179,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61161\/revisions\/61179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}