{"id":63335,"date":"2024-12-27T06:55:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T14:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=63335"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:14:20","slug":"gerres-enigma-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/gerres-enigma-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post: Gerre’s Enigma Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skeleton Mermaid Enigma Bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I was making my sister’s Enigma bag back in July, I also made one for Gerre for Christmas. This is Enigma #6.<\/p>\n

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Skeleton Mermaid Enigma – bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t use my ‘regular’ sugar skull fabric for this one. I used a fabric I bought on my trip to and around Portland<\/a> and I can’t decide if I like it. The key is whether Gerre likes it.  I thought the seahorses and some of the ocean life were cool, but the skeletons started to creep me out after awhile. If she feels the same, I will make another one of these for her. I’ll have to see what she says. <\/p>\n

I am pleased with the fussy cutting on the bottom. I didn’t have a lot of the fabric and was glad I had enough to highlight the main motif.<\/p>\n

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Skeleton Mermaid Enigma open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am also pleased with the way the inside came out. The stripes I bought at the Granary are perfect for the inside.<\/p>\n

The pattern calls for a 2.5 inch wide binding. I made the binding 2.25 inches wide, which is my norm for quilting binding. I had to stretch the binding a bit in certain places and trim seams, but mostly the 2.25 inch binding worked well.<\/p>\n

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Skeleton Mermaid Enigma – interior detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I figured out a great place to put my label<\/a> on these Enigma bags. The label fits well in the middle of the inside pocket. The label isn’t tucked away unobtrusively and I am not sure how I feel about that.  I am not sure why I didn’t think of it before as it was also easy to install.<\/p>\n

As with my sister’s Enigma bag<\/a>, this one went together pretty easily. I like making the same bags over and over as they get better each time I do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I was making my sister’s Enigma bag back in July, I also made one for Gerre for Christmas. This is Enigma #6. I didn’t use my ‘regular’ sugar skull fabric for this one. I used a fabric I bought on my trip to and around Portland and I can’t decide if I like it. … Continue reading “Gift Post: Gerre’s 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_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":[128,540,316,493,255,544],"class_list":["post-63335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-completed-project","tag-enigma","tag-gifts","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\/63335","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=63335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63606,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63335\/revisions\/63606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}