{"id":67813,"date":"2025-09-21T07:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67813"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:38:47","slug":"gifts-from-carrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/gifts-from-carrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts from Carrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67765\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_185120_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67765\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_185120_wm-sm-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Gifts from Carrie\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_185120_wm-sm-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_185120_wm-sm-1024x669.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_185120_wm-sm-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_185120_wm-sm-1200x784.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250825_185120_wm-sm.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gifts from Carrie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/carrieperzow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carrie<\/a> is always trying something new and I love to see what she is working on. We went out to lunch the other week and she gave me a lovely pouch and some fabric.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best parts is that we dissect whatever pouch or bag she has made. In this case, she told me about the video she used and I told her about the Sew Sweetness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vexa1888faU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Show Bag Lab<\/a> where Sara showed how to finish a zipper. This finish is used in her <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/finished-hindsight-dogwood-pouches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dogwood Pouches pattern<\/a>. We always have a great time talking about bags. I feel like it is ridiculous, but I enjoy the exercise so much. Perhaps it is part of the mental challenge of making bags?<\/p>\n<p>The fabric came from the recent fabric sale that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scvqa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCVQA<\/a> held. It was so nice her to think of me.<\/p>\n<p>I have mentioned several times that Carrie took a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/about\/classes-offered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beginning quilt class<\/a> and followed up with the design class from me during the Pandemic. She has become a fearless bag maker and it makes me very proud.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie is always trying something new and I love to see what she is working on. We went out to lunch the other week and she gave me a lovely pouch and some fabric. One of the best parts is that we dissect whatever pouch or bag she has made. In this case, she told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/gifts-from-carrie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gifts from Carrie&#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":[508],"class_list":["post-67813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-gifrs-for-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67813","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=67813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68044,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67813\/revisions\/68044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}