{"id":69124,"date":"2025-12-28T07:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=69124"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:31:08","slug":"hemingways-for-lil-sissy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hemingways-for-lil-sissy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemingways for Lil Sissy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69054\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143446_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69054\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143446_wm-sm-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Big Hemingway for Lil Sissy\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143446_wm-sm-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143446_wm-sm-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143446_wm-sm-768x1001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143446_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 85vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Hemingway for Lil Sissy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided to make a Hemingway pouch for my sister for Christmas. Partly this was to provide a laptop\/tablet cover for her and partly because this is a quick project and I hadn&#8217;t started a more complicated bag in time to get it done before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I like this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/1614981055\/pdf-hemingway-pouch-pattern-digital?ref=shop_home_feat_2&amp;bes=1&amp;sts=1&amp;dd=1&amp;logging_key=23179f975d161397e2c0ff5d7224bc739ba512d2%3A1614981055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pattern<\/a>, especially the diagonal zipper. The Center Street Quilts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/centerstreetquilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">videos I find on Instagram<\/a> are also very appealing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69055\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143442_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69055\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143442_wm-sm-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"Baby Hemingway for Lil Sissy\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143442_wm-sm-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143442_wm-sm-768x688.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251208_143442_wm-sm.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Hemingway for Lil Sissy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I made this pattern <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/hemingway-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once before<\/a>. I ended up with a section of vinyl and half a zipper. This time I decided to take MaryC&#8217;s advice and make a small pouch to go with the larger one. Mary uses hers for WonderClips, but Lil Sissy can use her for small cosmetics or dog treats.<\/p>\n<p>I am pretty pleased with how it came out, though the print looks a little sideways. I also meant to add a handle, but forgot in the process of getting it done.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69052\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_1840051_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69052\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_1840051_wm-sm-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"Baby Hemingway - 1st iteration\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_1840051_wm-sm-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_1840051_wm-sm-768x690.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_1840051_wm-sm.jpg 893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baby Hemingway &#8211; 1st iteration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first iteration of the small Hemingway had the binding on the outside.&nbsp; My machine binding still needs work. I didn&#8217;t like the way it looked so I cut off the binding, bound it on the inside and made it a little smaller.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to make a Hemingway pouch for my sister for Christmas. Partly this was to provide a laptop\/tablet cover for her and partly because this is a quick project and I hadn&#8217;t started a more complicated bag in time to get it done before Christmas. I like this pattern, especially the diagonal zipper. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/hemingways-for-lil-sissy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hemingways for Lil Sissy&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[538],"tags":[541,128,316,488],"class_list":["post-69124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-center-street-quilts-pattern","tag-completed-project","tag-gifts","tag-pouch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69124","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=69124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69225,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69124\/revisions\/69225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}