{"id":71177,"date":"2026-06-12T07:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=71177"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:57:10","slug":"more-open-wide-pouches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/more-open-wide-pouches\/","title":{"rendered":"More Open Wide Pouches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open Wide pouches by Noodlehead<\/a> make great gifts. As mentioned previously<\/a>, they are easy to make, but complex enough to be interesting. Also, the pattern is free.<\/p>\n

\"Small,<\/a>
Small, medium Open Wide pouches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent some time making some Open Wide pouches for the wife of a friend of my Mom’s. He drove Mom and stepdad to an appointment on his wife’s birthday. I thought a couple of pouches would show appreciation.<\/p>\n

I used the new Martha Negley fabric I bought at Picking Daisies<\/a> a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

\"Large<\/a>
Large Open Wide for Mom’s friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The one thing I did was delve into math again. The pattern tells you to line up the corners, sew and then cut off the excess. I get better results by cutting out a box and then lining up the edges. DH reminded me of the Pythagorean theorem (!!!!). It is one of those with a lot of letters that made me crazy as an eighth grader. More detail on that later. <\/p>\n

\"Small,<\/a>
Small, medium Open Wide pouches-open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Needless to say, I used this theorem and my calculator to figure out a box size for these pouches.  Closed they look a little weird, but open they look ok. The open wide aspect is so useful.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to work on figuring out the best size to make these look ok.<\/p>\n

\"Large<\/a>
Large Open Wide- open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have to say that exercise was interesting. I showed DH how a pouch goes together every step during the process and he was really interested. I think he thought the practical use of the Pythagorean theorem was fascinating. I have to say that learning the practical use of one of those stupid math concepts was a revelation.<\/p>\n

The other thing I noticed was a lot of similarities in the construction of this pouch and the Retreat Pouch<\/a>, also free, from Emmaline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Open Wide pouches by Noodlehead make great gifts. As mentioned previously, they are easy to make, but complex enough to be interesting. Also, the pattern is free. I spent some time making some Open Wide pouches for the wife of a friend of my Mom’s. He drove Mom and stepdad to an appointment on his … Continue reading “More Open Wide Pouches”<\/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":[128,316,488],"class_list":["post-71177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-completed-project","tag-gifts","tag-pouch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71177","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=71177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71215,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71177\/revisions\/71215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}