{"id":65732,"date":"2025-02-21T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=65732"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T00:13:35","slug":"day-trip-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/day-trip-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Trip Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
\"Day<\/a>
Day Trip Cell Phone Pocket made<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

I am pleased to say that the Day Trip is progressing much better than I expected.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As mentioned, I was anxious about the difficulty of this project. I am carefully following all the directions and watching the video accompaniment when I have even a sliver of doubt. I am not having any problems! I am so excited.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In some ways, this is a meditative process for me. There are a reasonable number of pieces and I was able to cut them out relatively quickly. I decided that I wasn’t going to skip steps to get to the sewing faster. That attitude made the sewing, once I finished all the prep, go much faster.<\/p>\r\n

\"Day<\/a>
Day Trip: Magnetic snaps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

It has been awhile since I installed magnet closure. I added some Decovil Heavy scraps behind both pieces to reinforce the snaps. I hope they will hold.<\/p>\r\n

Sara has a really good tip in this pattern about using the round template\/reinforcement thingy that comes with the magnet closure for placement. It is so obvious yet I never thought of it.<\/p>\r\n

\"Day<\/a>
Day Trip zipper installation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

The cell phone pocket (above) is complete. I am working on installing the zipper that closes the whole bag. I had to cut the zipper to the right size. I really need to make some of those Center Street Quilts heart pouches<\/a> in order to use up some of my leftover zipper pieces. This is a difficult part as the zipper really doesn’t like going around corners, but I went slowly and persevered. It’s the same challenge all the time. Am I getting better? Maybe. I should be after all those Hackney<\/a> pouches.<\/p>\r\n

I am really jealous of that skinny quarter inch foot Sara uses. I think it would make going around those corners easier.<\/p>\r\n

At Bag Club on Saturday we talked about installing an interior zipper pocket. I did sort of a theoretical tutorial using the Sotak Handmade Purse Organizer<\/a> as an example. Since it was already made, there was a lot of imagination required.<\/p>\r\n

\"Day<\/a>
Day Trip: one interior zipper pocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

Funnily enough, I had to make two of these types of pockets on Sunday! They are a little fiddly, but really easy. I use Sara’s zipper pocket ruler<\/a> for the measuring and drawing the box. She is not restocking her acrylic templates, so get them while they are still available. I checked other places and can’t find one like Sara’s. I found one from Arc Expressions<\/a> (no affiliation) that I think would work, though you would have to use another ruler to measure pockets on larger bags.<\/p>\r\n

Anyway, talking through the pocket installation on Saturday was really helpful on Sunday when I went to make the pockets. I had an idea in my mind about what I was doing. I made one (or more??) on the most recent Superbloom<\/a>, so I was in good shape. I like having the process firmly in my mind.<\/p>\r\n

One of the best things about these pockets is you can pull the bag right side out through this pocket. I love it when designers use that technique. You can add these pockets to almost any bag with a lining.<\/p>\r\n

I am well on my way. Get this pattern and make one!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am pleased to say that the Day Trip is progressing much better than I expected. As mentioned, I was anxious about the difficulty of this project. I am carefully following all the directions and watching the video accompaniment when I have even a sliver of doubt. I am not having any problems! I am … Continue reading “Day Trip Continues”<\/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":[538],"tags":[316,493,255,544],"class_list":["post-65732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","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\/65732","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=65732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65745,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65732\/revisions\/65745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}