{"id":70236,"date":"2026-04-07T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70236"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:35:46","slug":"finished-handbag-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-handbag-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Handbag Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70319\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260330_124739_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70319\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260330_124739_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Handbag Sampler -finished\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260330_124739_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260330_124739_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260330_124739_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handbag Sampler -finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I realized that I had never posted the finished quilt. After all these months, it was time.<\/p>\n<p>This poor quilt has had a time. Something about it makes the blocks get lost, the need to post about it get lost. I am not sure why as it is a good looking quilt. It is very different than the other samplers I have made. It makes me want to make another sampler with more crazy colors.<\/p>\n<p>I started the Handbag Sampler when I was teaching <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/AliceQltLge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alice<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BethSampler.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beth<\/a> in 2006. 20 years! WOW! This is a real UFO and I am so glad to get it off my list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realized that I had never posted the finished quilt. After all these months, it was time. This poor quilt has had a time. Something about it makes the blocks get lost, the need to post about it get lost. I am not sure why as it is a good looking quilt. It is very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-handbag-sampler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: Handbag Sampler&#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":[558],"tags":[467,380],"class_list":["post-70236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-handbag-sampler","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\/70236","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=70236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70331,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70236\/revisions\/70331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}