{"id":71161,"date":"2026-06-23T06:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=71161"},"modified":"2026-06-20T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:30:47","slug":"cosquilla-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cosquilla-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosquilla in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260523_183612_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71163\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260523_183612_wm-sm-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"Beth's Cosquilla in the Wild\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260523_183612_wm-sm-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260523_183612_wm-sm-768x667.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260523_183612_wm-sm.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth&#8217;s Cosquilla in the Wild<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I love seeing bags I have made in use and not staged for my benefit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was the case with the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/finished-cosquilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cosquilla I made for my SIL#4 for Christmas<\/a> last year. We visited them for dinner one evening and I saw the bag on a side table when I went to stash my handbag.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This also reminded me that I need to make sure I do a good job when I sew bags. They need to not fall apart as people will actually used them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I struggled with the curve on this bag and am curious to see how the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/new-sewing-machine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new machine<\/a> will handle the curve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love seeing bags I have made in use and not staged for my benefit.&nbsp; This was the case with the Cosquilla I made for my SIL#4 for Christmas last year. We visited them for dinner one evening and I saw the bag on a side table when I went to stash my handbag.&nbsp; This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/cosquilla-in-the-wild\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cosquilla in the Wild&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[558],"tags":[316,532,255,544],"class_list":["post-71161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-gifts","tag-in-the-wild","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\/71161","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=71161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71321,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71161\/revisions\/71321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}