{"id":71634,"date":"2026-07-22T07:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=71634"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:26:40","slug":"large-fairytale-i-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/large-fairytale-i-spy\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Fairytale I Spy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212943_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71606\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212943_wm-sm-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Large Fairytale I Spy\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212943_wm-sm-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212943_wm-sm-768x749.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212943_wm-sm.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Fairytale I Spy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided to enlarge the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/i-spy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Spy<\/a> pattern to accommodate the <a href=\"https:\/\/sewhungryhippie.com\/products\/joni-tote-acrylic-template-set?_pos=1&amp;_sid=541e3b3e3&amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joni Tote templates<\/a> I bought from <a href=\"https:\/\/sewhungryhippie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sew Hungry Hippie<\/a>. I know I am mixing pattern companies, but I don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>I have only made one other <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/enlarged-i-spy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enlarged I Spy<\/a>. The pouch came out ok, but was just a bit short for holding the Joni templates. \ud83d\ude41 Part of the reason is that I had already cut the lining for some reason. I think it might have been leftover and I was trying to use it up.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the reason I buy bag patterns. Still, I have plenty of large templates and will use this pouch for the Mistflower Water bottle carrier (<a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/minikins-season-four-12-pattern-video-bundle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minikins Season 4<\/a>) templates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71605\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212913_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71605\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212913_wm-sm-300x284.jpg\" alt=\"Large Fairytale I Spy with templates\" width=\"300\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212913_wm-sm-300x284.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212913_wm-sm-768x728.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260717_212913_wm-sm.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Fairytale I Spy with templates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After realizing my error, I wondered if I put the sizes from the pattern into a spreadsheet if I could figure out different sizes by some calculation. I haven&#8217;t tried it yet, but am undeterred.<\/p>\n<p>I used some measurements for the handle from another handle and must have forgotten how to measure. It works, but is a little small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to enlarge the I Spy pattern to accommodate the Joni Tote templates I bought from Sew Hungry Hippie. I know I am mixing pattern companies, but I don&#8217;t care. I have only made one other enlarged I Spy. The pouch came out ok, but was just a bit short for holding the Joni &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/large-fairytale-i-spy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Large Fairytale I Spy&#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":[524,493,488,255,544],"class_list":["post-71634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-i-spy","tag-minikins-patterns","tag-pouch","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\/71634","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=71634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71640,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71634\/revisions\/71640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}