{"id":67478,"date":"2025-08-13T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67478"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:06:47","slug":"sewing-date-traveler-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/sewing-date-traveler-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Date Traveler In Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found the Sewing Date Traveler pattern a few months ago. It is a free pattern on the Robert Kaufman site<\/a>. It was designed by Cynthia Frenette<\/a>. I looked her up on IG, but didn’t see any other bag patterns. I wasn’t sure whether I would make it or not, but saved the pattern anyway. <\/p>\n

Recently, I found out that my mom has to have another surgery. After looking at various examples on IG<\/a>, I decided to make this to corral all the little things (phone, glasses, book, etc) that lay around a hospital room. She had a nice big ICU room before, but we hope she doesn’t get sent there and I don’t know how big the normal rooms are. <\/p>\n

\"RK<\/a>
RK Sewing Date Traveler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The bag doesn’t have a closure, so it will be used more as an organizer than security. I keep thinking of it as a tray. The picture on the RK site<\/a> is a little confusing until you read the directions (which I actually did for once). I thought this bag was more like the Sew Together Bag<\/a>. I thought the green pocket on the inside back was another zipper pocket. In truth, that is a slip pocket on the back lining. The construction is a bit like the Sew Together Bag<\/a>. If you have made one of those, you should be able to make this without much trouble. <\/p>\n

Famous last words. LOL. The construction, for me, hasn’t been the problem. It is very straightforward, if different from the other bag designers whose patterns I normally use. The problem is the interfacing. Since this will be used for who knows how much stuff, I wanted it to stand up to some heavy use. I thought foam might be ok, but wanted something stiffer if I could find it. The pattern calls for Pellon 65<\/a>. It is described as “… Extra Heavyweight is a sew-in interfacing for extra firm body and stiffening. It is great for printing, visor brims, backpacks, and drapery headers.” I have a chart for interfacing equivalents, but I couldn’t find an equivalent for Pellon 65 on any of them. The description told me a little about how stiff it was and I thought I wanted it stiffer. I used Pellon Peltex 71F, which I knew was thicker than how Pellon 65 was described. It is thick! I don’t use it that often, but once I started, I couldn’t backtrack. <\/p>\n

\"Sewing<\/a>
Sewing Date Traveler lining assembled<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the moment, the exterior, which has the Peltex attached, is flat on my ironing board, but the lining is assembled. I thought the bag would be larger, but I think it is a good size. Also, it isn’t exactly small. <\/p>\n

I thought I would get the whole thing finished over the weekend, but, as you can see, that didn’t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found the Sewing Date Traveler pattern a few months ago. It is a free pattern on the Robert Kaufman site. It was designed by Cynthia Frenette. I looked her up on IG, but didn’t see any other bag patterns. I wasn’t sure whether I would make it or not, but saved the pattern anyway.  … Continue reading “Sewing Date Traveler In Progress”<\/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":[316,353,255],"class_list":["post-67478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-gifts","tag-process","tag-project-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478","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=67478"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67489,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478\/revisions\/67489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}