{"id":661,"date":"2008-12-14T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/gift-bags-from-afar\/"},"modified":"2016-11-08T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T20:56:19","slug":"gift-bags-from-afar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/gift-bags-from-afar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Bags From Afar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Mary-Jeanine and I exchanged emails about gift bags. She had already put her Christmas ornaments away when we had the conversation, but she promised to send me one of her bags this year. I also sent her one of mine.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUUjKw4BXII\/AAAAAAAAC4s\/E6zEDETmbyU\/s1600-h\/PICT3416sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUUjKw4BXII\/AAAAAAAAC4s\/E6zEDETmbyU\/s320\/PICT3416sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279664805987310722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Mary-Jeanine&#8217;s are about the same size and proportion as mine. I am sure hers vary depending on the size of the gift, though.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUUjLao_mAI\/AAAAAAAAC48\/2kjUgxncw5A\/s1600-h\/PICT3420sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUUjLao_mAI\/AAAAAAAAC48\/2kjUgxncw5A\/s320\/PICT3420sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279664817198569474\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>She serges the inside of her bags, which, I am sure, makes the construction go a lot faster.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUUjLFUVkCI\/AAAAAAAAC40\/T_NWRtS0R0I\/s1600-h\/PICT3417sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 198px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUUjLFUVkCI\/AAAAAAAAC40\/T_NWRtS0R0I\/s320\/PICT3417sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279664811474784290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>M-J also does a little different closure construction. She puts a grommet in on each side and makes a casing, so the wrapper can pull the top tight<\/p>\n<p>I really like seeing different takes on these gift bags, especially on the closures.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing Mary-Jeanine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Mary-Jeanine and I exchanged emails about gift bags. She had already put her Christmas ornaments away when we had the conversation, but she promised to send me one of her bags this year. I also sent her one of mine. Mary-Jeanine&#8217;s are about the same size and proportion as mine. I am sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/gift-bags-from-afar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift Bags From Afar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[388],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-gift-bags"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}