{"id":70705,"date":"2026-05-17T07:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70705"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:39:15","slug":"snap-tray-for-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/snap-tray-for-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Snap Tray for Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70724\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131929_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70724\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131929_wm-sm-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"Mom's Snap Tray\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131929_wm-sm-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131929_wm-sm-768x726.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131929_wm-sm.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mom&#8217;s Snap Tray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the course of making all the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/finished-all-the-snap-trays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snap trays<\/a>, I decided to make one for Mom. She is sewing in a very small space and I thought it would help keep her organized.<\/p>\n<p>I used the fabric from the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/gift-post-paint-tube-bathrobe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robe<\/a> Mary and I made her. It goes with her other gifts, too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70720\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131939_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70720\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131939_wm-sm-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"Mom's Snap Tray - bottom\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131939_wm-sm-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131939_wm-sm-768x725.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131939_wm-sm.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mom&#8217;s Snap Tray &#8211; bottom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I used some of the new painting fabric I bought for future gifts. Normally I would use this fabric for the interior, but I wanted her to be able to see the paint tubes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting how these snap trays show only one fabric unless you turn the piece over. Barring some complicated piecing, there is not way to have a little of interior fabric peek through.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-70705 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20260426_131957_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131957_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mom&#039;s Snap Tray exterior\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70722\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70722'>\n\t\t\t\tMom&#8217;s Snap Tray exterior\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20260426_131952_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131952_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Mom&#039;s Snap Tray interior\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131952_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131952_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131952_wm-sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426_131952_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70721'>\n\t\t\t\tMom&#8217;s Snap Tray interior\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Mom also has a lot of bags she is not using, so I wanted to make sure I made her something she could use right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the course of making all the snap trays, I decided to make one for Mom. She is sewing in a very small space and I thought it would help keep her organized. I used the fabric from the robe Mary and I made her. It goes with her other gifts, too. I used some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/snap-tray-for-mom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snap Tray for Mom&#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":[558],"tags":[316,561],"class_list":["post-70705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-gifts","tag-small-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70705","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=70705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70856,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70705\/revisions\/70856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}