{"id":67258,"date":"2025-07-28T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67258"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:10:11","slug":"handbag-sampler-top-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/handbag-sampler-top-and-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbag Sampler Top and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67249\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_162758_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67249\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_162758_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Handbag Sampler top finished\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_162758_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_162758_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_162758_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handbag Sampler top finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished the Handbag Sampler and it is now with Colleen getting quilted. I am pleased with the way it came out. I am even more pleased that it is done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am kind of amazed at the colors and fabrics I chose for this quilt. It is super bright and there is a lot to look at.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I rearranged the blocks before I sewed it together. I thought I needed to move some of the diamond fabrics away from each other. They were sort of concentrated at the bottom of the quilt, so I moved the Nosegay block to the top.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I feel slightly bereft finishing this quilt. I have others on my to do list, but this one seems like it might be the oldest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Handbag Sampler and it is now with Colleen getting quilted. I am pleased with the way it came out. I am even more pleased that it is done.&nbsp; I am kind of amazed at the colors and fabrics I chose for this quilt. It is super bright and there is a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/handbag-sampler-top-and-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Handbag Sampler Top and Back&#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":[467,252,380],"class_list":["post-67258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-handbag-sampler","tag-project-quilt","tag-sampler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67258","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=67258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67260,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67258\/revisions\/67260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}