{"id":66373,"date":"2025-04-13T06:44:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66373"},"modified":"2025-04-11T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T01:06:44","slug":"starting-the-vervain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/starting-the-vervain\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the Vervain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66399\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250410_193820_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66399\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250410_193820_wm-sm-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Vervain start\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250410_193820_wm-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250410_193820_wm-sm-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250410_193820_wm-sm-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250410_193820_wm-sm-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250410_193820_wm-sm.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vervain start<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I started the <a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/vervain-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vervain<\/a> at Sew Day the other day. The Vervain is a small belt bag (fanny pack). A front pocket on the outside and a lining zipper pocket on the inside lend storage space. The main compartment secures with the top zipper.<\/p>\n<p>I am making this for my aunt, mostly because I have more iris fabric. She wants to use it to hold her cell phone on her daily walks I am happy to do it as she is my favorite aunt and I have wanted to make this bag.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I almost cut out two of them. I restrained myself, though. I decided just to make the one and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>Sew Sweetness has no templates for this one, which is a shame as the pieces are weirdly shaped. I used my scissors and that worked fine. I have a couple of pieces of foam I cut separately rather than on the fold. I&#8217;ll either stitch them together or cut a new piece on this fold this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started the Vervain at Sew Day the other day. The Vervain is a small belt bag (fanny pack). A front pocket on the outside and a lining zipper pocket on the inside lend storage space. The main compartment secures with the top zipper. I am making this for my aunt, mostly because I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/starting-the-vervain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting the Vervain&#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":[538],"tags":[316,255,544],"class_list":["post-66373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-gifts","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\/66373","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=66373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66402,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66373\/revisions\/66402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}