{"id":61742,"date":"2024-02-12T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=61742"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:19:36","slug":"finished-enigma-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/finished-enigma-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Enigma #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61528\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065453_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61528\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065453_wm-sm-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"Pink Enigma\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065453_wm-sm-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065453_wm-sm-768x652.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065453_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink Enigma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/enigma-4-in-process\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enigma #4<\/a> and also gave it to my friend. She was so touched; it made me want to cry. I don&#8217;t think of giving bags to people as anything special. In my small quiltmaking\/bagmaking world, everyone gives bags like they are napkins or something equally as mundane. I am always brought up short when I give a bag to someone outside of that world and see how amazed they are.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61523\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065538_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61523\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065538_wm-sm-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pink Enigma #4: open\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065538_wm-sm-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065538_wm-sm-768x846.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065538_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 85vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink Enigma #4: open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This one came out really well. I am still impressed by the matching stripe I was able to find. I cannot remember when I bought it or where, but it has been hanging around for awhile. It just goes so perfectly with the pink and green outer fabric. I used up all of the fabrics I used. All had chunks taken out of them when I started and were really just scraps when I finished.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61521\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065510_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61521\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065510_wm-sm-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Engima #4 - top view\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065510_wm-sm-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065510_wm-sm-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065510_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Engima #4 &#8211; top view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, I am still swooning over the diagonal zipper. Of course, I didn&#8217;t take a photo of the side where you can see in this version. You can see the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20231218_165211_wm-sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diagonal zipper<\/a> and how it works in the picture of Mom&#8217;s Enigma.<\/p>\n<p>I am really pleased, also, with how well the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4bv8ZlH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handbag zipper<\/a> color goes with the exterior fabric of the bag.<\/p>\n<p>I am Miss Self Admiration Society today, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61522\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065529_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61522\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065529_wm-sm-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pink Enigma - open flat\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065529_wm-sm-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065529_wm-sm-768x787.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240118_065529_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 85vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink Enigma &#8211; open flat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This one also lays flat. I still really like the way this design opens flat for accessing everything inside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This piece really came together well in terms of fabric. I am already thinking about the next one I want to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Enigma #4 and also gave it to my friend. She was so touched; it made me want to cry. I don&#8217;t think of giving bags to people as anything special. In my small quiltmaking\/bagmaking world, everyone gives bags like they are napkins or something equally as mundane. I am always brought up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/finished-enigma-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: Enigma #4&#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":[530],"tags":[128,540,316,493,544],"class_list":["post-61742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-completed-project","tag-enigma","tag-gifts","tag-minikins-patterns","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\/61742","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=61742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61744,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61742\/revisions\/61744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}