{"id":70924,"date":"2026-05-12T06:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70924"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:13:26","slug":"fairytale-i-spy-pouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/fairytale-i-spy-pouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairytale I Spy Pouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70925\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260507_171006_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70925\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260507_171006_wm-sm-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Fairytale I Spy - finished\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260507_171006_wm-sm-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260507_171006_wm-sm-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260507_171006_wm-sm.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairytale I Spy &#8211; finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the first projects I finished on my vacation was an I Spy pouch. I wanted to make one for the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/fiddling-with-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chaos templates<\/a>. There are a lot of them and I want them to be corralled.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The largest size of the I Spy pouch wasn&#8217;t large enough for the templates, so I decided to make a larger one.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to make the new pouch 12&#215;12 inches-ish. I got confused using Mary&#8217;s ruler and the pouch ended up being about 10&#215;12 inches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260511_210528_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70927\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260511_210528_wm-sm-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"Fairytale I Spy with templates\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260511_210528_wm-sm-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260511_210528_wm-sm-768x694.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260511_210528_wm-sm.jpg 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fairytale I Spy with templates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I got home I found that the templates all fit, but the I Spy pouches are pretty flat, at least this one is, so the zipper doesn&#8217;t quite close. If I had made it with SF101 instead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sewfisticatedsupplies.com\/collections\/stabilizer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sewfisive foam<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/sewfisticatedsupplies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sewfisticated<\/a>, it probably would have worked perfectly. I love that foam so much, though!<\/p>\n<p>That fairytale fabric was in my pile of backing fabric. I have a few pieces of novelty fabric that have been hanging around for awhile. I thought about donating it, but decided to use it here. It&#8217;s fun and provides a good name for yet another I Spy!<\/p>\n<p>As it is, it will do for now. I&#8217;ll make another larger one soon and use this one for something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first projects I finished on my vacation was an I Spy pouch. I wanted to make one for the Chaos templates. There are a lot of them and I want them to be corralled.&nbsp; The largest size of the I Spy pouch wasn&#8217;t large enough for the templates, so I decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/fairytale-i-spy-pouch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fairytale I Spy Pouch&#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":[128,524,488,544],"class_list":["post-70924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-completed-project","tag-i-spy","tag-pouch","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\/70924","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=70924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70930,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70924\/revisions\/70930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}