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<\/a>Mary made the Atlas<\/a> again. I made a couple of these and still want to make one for myself. Remember one was Cal themed<\/a>? I am not done with this pattern yet, but I have other things to finish first.<\/p>\n Mary did a fantastic job on hers, as usual. The fabric is so fun! She also used some specialty vinyl with sewing motifs for some of the inside pockets, which is super cute. I normally stick to the glitter vinyl, but some of the specialty vinyl is tempting me.<\/p>\n As I have said before, this is a great portfolio. It is so useful and I think it would be used much more if you had one as pretty as Mary made.<\/p>\n I really love her zipper and zipper pulls. The actual zipper reminds me of the zippers I found at Sewlarium<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mary has been experimenting with different methods of finishing zipper ends and the photo on the right (above) shows one of her favorite current methods. The pattern has the maker fold the zipper under into a kind of curve. I have had mixed results on my efforts<\/a> using the recommended method. I haven’t tried Mary’s method yet. <\/p>\n Christine made a very interesting divided basket. I went and found the pattern<\/a>, because I thought it was so cool.<\/p>\n There are a lot of pockets and storage areas included in this pattern. I think it is a great idea to have some slip pockets on the outside.<\/p>\n We discussed the construction and decided it would be worthwhile trying some different interfacings to see if they made a difference.<\/p>\n The shape and positioning of the handles reminds me of the One Hour Basket<\/a>. I have made several One Hour Baskets, but I put the handles on the sides as I find it more useful. <\/p>\n I also like the shape of this design. The skinniness would make it easy to tuck into certain spaces. <\/p>\n Christine used some great Philip Jacobs fabric for the outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As mentioned, we had an organizer swap at the guild yesterday. I was not the organizer of the swap, but I was put in charge of selecting swap items for a couple of people who weren’t able to attend. Christine and Mary thought the swap was at Sew Day. Since it wasn’t, they gave me … Continue reading “Organizer Swap Boss”<\/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":[137,329,59],"class_list":["post-67054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-organization","tag-swaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67054","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=67054"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67215,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67054\/revisions\/67215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mary's](\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250706_180018_wm-sm-300x235.jpg\")
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