{"id":62211,"date":"2024-04-08T07:13:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=62211"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:16:53","slug":"mermaid-i-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mermaid-i-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mermaid I Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I still don’t really have a plan for 2024 in terms of sewing. I am just not sure what type of projects I want to focus on. I am starting to think that finishing a lot of UFOs was a bad idea. It left me sort of feeling like I don’t want to generate more UFOs.<\/p>\n

\"Create<\/a>
Create * Make * Dream I Spy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I still want to sew, so I fell back on my potato chip project: the I Spy pouches. I have some templates coming from Sew Sweetness so I thought I would get ahead of the game and make the pouches in advance. The first one I finished was the Mermaid pouch AKA the Create * Make * Dream I Spy.<\/p>\n

\"Create<\/a>
Create * Make * Dream I Spy – back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I used a different coneflower colorway than I did in the last I Spy<\/a>. Surprisingly, I didn’t have as much of it as I thought, so the three pouches I made are sort of scrappy. This one looks relatively normal from the front, but I used a mermaid print for the back.<\/p>\n

I bought this fabric on a whim at Cool Cottons in Portland<\/a> last year, possibly for a bag for my sister. This is the first time I have used it, however. It is a fun fabric and I am glad I will have a little piece of it for myself. I still have enough left to make something for Lil Sissy.<\/p>\n

I haven’t put any templates in yet, but it will be used for acrylic bag templates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I still don’t really have a plan for 2024 in terms of sewing. I am just not sure what type of projects I want to focus on. I am starting to think that finishing a lot of UFOs was a bad idea. It left me sort of feeling like I don’t want to generate more … Continue reading “Mermaid I Spy”<\/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":[530],"tags":[524,493,488,544],"class_list":["post-62211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-i-spy","tag-minikins-patterns","tag-pouch","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\/62211","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=62211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62213,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62211\/revisions\/62213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}