{"id":64646,"date":"2025-01-06T06:56:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=64646"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:29:24","slug":"gift-post-sues-i-spy-pouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/gift-post-sues-i-spy-pouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post: Sue&#8217;s I Spy Pouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_64644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64644\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140516_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64644\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140516_wm-sm-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Sue's I Spy pouch - front\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140516_wm-sm-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140516_wm-sm-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140516_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue&#8217;s I Spy pouch &#8211; front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had a tough time deciding what to make for Carrie and Sue for Christmas. I don&#8217;t want to just make them anything. I want what I make to be useful. Eventually, after considering several Minikins patterns I hadn&#8217;t tried, I decided on <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/i-spy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Spy<\/a> pouches.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a cop out?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64645\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140541_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64645\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140541_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sue's I Spy - back\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140541_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140541_wm-sm-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20241029_140541_wm-sm.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue&#8217;s I Spy &#8211; back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I have said before, these pouches are like eating potato chips for me. I can make one quickly. I also really enjoy making them. Because they are fast? Maybe. Mostly because they are useful.<\/p>\n<p>Sue gets a color wheel on the back to help her pick out fabric. I also remembered to put a label on the pouch.<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago I made Carrie and <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/gift-sues-kit-supply-tote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sue Kit Supply Totes<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/color-wheel-hackney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hackney pouches<\/a> I made for them fit nicely into the Kit Supply Totes. I thought the I Spy would fit nicely in it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a tough time deciding what to make for Carrie and Sue for Christmas. I don&#8217;t want to just make them anything. I want what I make to be useful. Eventually, after considering several Minikins patterns I hadn&#8217;t tried, I decided on I Spy pouches. Is this a cop out? No. As I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/gift-post-sues-i-spy-pouch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift Post: Sue&#8217;s I Spy Pouch&#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":[128,316,524,493,488,544],"class_list":["post-64646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-completed-project","tag-gifts","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\/64646","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=64646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64728,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64646\/revisions\/64728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}