{"id":70707,"date":"2026-05-11T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70707"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:57:35","slug":"mini-one-handle-tote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mini-one-handle-tote\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini One Handle Tote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70714\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260427_095428_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70714\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260427_095428_wm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mini One Handle Tote #1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260427_095428_wm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260427_095428_wm.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mini One Handle Tote #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I spent some time on Sunday playing around with making a bag I saw on Instagram. Kotobukisewing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAVZWcIzx0o\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed how to make a Mini One Handle Tote<\/a> in a&nbsp; reel &lt;insert eye roll here. and something about it appealed to me.<\/p>\n<p>I succeeded! I had to plow through all the bits that IG glosses over, but despite those things, the bag came out very well. This is a relatively simple bag, but my experience with bag making helped a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I had to watch the video about 355 times, because I don&#8217;t know how to stop and start IG videos. I was able to make this bag and it looks similar to the one shown on the video. I had to translate the metric measurements into Imperial\/American inches and I am pleased to say the bag still looks balanced. One thing I learned is that there is a metric ruler printed on my new machine&#8217;s sewing table. Super helpful!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I did look at their shop, but didn&#8217;t see a pattern. They have a lot of other cute patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time on Sunday playing around with making a bag I saw on Instagram. Kotobukisewing showed how to make a Mini One Handle Tote in a&nbsp; reel &lt;insert eye roll here. and something about it appealed to me. I succeeded! I had to plow through all the bits that IG glosses over, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mini-one-handle-tote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mini One Handle Tote&#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":[255],"class_list":["post-70707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-project-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70707","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=70707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70793,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70707\/revisions\/70793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}