{"id":70754,"date":"2026-05-16T07:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70754"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:51:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:51:56","slug":"mini-one-handle-tote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mini-one-handle-tote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini One Handle Tote #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70755\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260428_104527_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70755\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260428_104527_wm-sm-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mini One Handle Tote #2 - finished\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260428_104527_wm-sm-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260428_104527_wm-sm.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 85vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mini One Handle Tote #2 &#8211; finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry. I am not going to tell you about every single one of these I make. I am still in the experimental phase so you get to hear about some of my musings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like the Snap Trays, I am experimenting a bit with various parts of how to make this. In this version, I used batting as the interfacing instead of SF101. It works well, but the bag feels a bit floopier, which I think is interesting, though maybe not preferable. It works, but SF101 or, maybe, DecorBond might be better. I haven&#8217;t tried DecorBond yet.<\/p>\n<p>I am using fabrics similar to those I used for the Snap Trays. I have a bin of <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/sorbet-fabric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorbet fabrics<\/a> I was using for the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/block-a-long\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Block-a-Long<\/a> a million years ago. There is a lot of fabric in that bin, so even using some for these bags will leave plenty for me to pick up the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/block-a-long\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Block-a-Long<\/a> project again. They have a Mary Engelbreit-ish look to them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry. I am not going to tell you about every single one of these I make. I am still in the experimental phase so you get to hear about some of my musings.&nbsp; Like the Snap Trays, I am experimenting a bit with various parts of how to make this. In this version, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mini-one-handle-tote-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mini One Handle Tote #2&#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":[137,316,255,66],"class_list":["post-70754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bamqg","tag-gifts","tag-project-bag","tag-tote-bags"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70754","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=70754"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70851,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70754\/revisions\/70851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}