{"id":70408,"date":"2026-04-13T07:19:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70408"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:34:17","slug":"finished-green-enigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-green-enigma\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Green Enigma"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70397\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140811_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70397\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140811_wm-sm-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's Enigma - front, closed\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140811_wm-sm-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140811_wm-sm-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140811_wm-sm-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140811_wm-sm.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim&#8217;s Enigma &#8211; front, closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finally finished the green Enigma. I shouldn&#8217;t say &#8216;finally&#8217;, though it did take longer than expected.&nbsp; I felt like everything that could go wrong did go wrong and I am not sure why. Still, it looks great and I am not embarrassed to give it as a gift.<\/p>\n<p>I still want to rivet the handles, but that requires a little coordination with my &#8220;rivet press dealer&#8221;. LOL! And I can give it without the rivets if necessary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70396\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140739_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70396\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140739_wm-sm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's Enigma - open\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140739_wm-sm-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140739_wm-sm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140739_wm-sm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140739_wm-sm.jpg 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim&#8217;s Enigma &#8211; open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am still planning on making a few more of these this year. I want to get over the drama I felt making this one and the pink rose one that I still need to finish.<\/p>\n<p>The lining fabric is one I have kind of been saving. I had it in a pink\/orange colorway, but think I used it for something. I really like the blue\/green colorway and was looking for a special project on which to use it. I didn&#8217;t really try to match up the squares, but they sort of ended up that way, which was nice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70393\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140655_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70393\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140655_wm-sm-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Tim's Enigma - back, closed\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140655_wm-sm-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140655_wm-sm-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140655_wm-sm-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140655_wm-sm-1200x771.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260406_140655_wm-sm.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim&#8217;s Enigma &#8211; back, closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/2026\/04\/april-2026-challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sara of Sew Sweetness&#8217; quarterly challenge<\/a> has just been announced. The challenge is to use some aspect of quiltmaking in your bag or pouch. This bag requires quilting on the bottom, so it qualifies. I may enter it as my entry. I don&#8217;t expect to win, but it is fun to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally finished the green Enigma. I shouldn&#8217;t say &#8216;finally&#8217;, though it did take longer than expected.&nbsp; I felt like everything that could go wrong did go wrong and I am not sure why. Still, it looks great and I am not embarrassed to give it as a gift. I still want to rivet the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-green-enigma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: Green Enigma&#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":[128,540,493,488,255,544],"class_list":["post-70408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-completed-project","tag-enigma","tag-minikins-patterns","tag-pouch","tag-project-bag","tag-sew-sweetness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70408","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=70408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70432,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70408\/revisions\/70432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}