{"id":71726,"date":"2026-08-04T07:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=71726"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:06:36","slug":"chickadee-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/chickadee-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickadee Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71795\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260731_143543_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71795\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260731_143543_wm-sm-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chickadee cut out\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260731_143543_wm-sm-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260731_143543_wm-sm-768x806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260731_143543_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 85vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickadee cut out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I posted about my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/july-ufo-challenge-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progress on the guild UFO challenge<\/a>. What I forgot to mention is that I started cutting out the Chickadee Backpack as well. I didn&#8217;t cut it <em><strong>all<\/strong><\/em> out, but I did start cutting from the large piece of quilted foam I had Colleen longarm for me months (years?) ago.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s UFO project hasn&#8217;t been chosen yet, but making a little progress will be helpful when the Chickadee is chosen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71769\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260730_180046_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71769\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260730_180046_wm-sm-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"MaryC's Chickadee\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260730_180046_wm-sm-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260730_180046_wm-sm-768x838.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260730_180046_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 85vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MaryC&#8217;s Chickadee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was also inspired by MaryC churning one out for a baby gift. She is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I was also pleased that she tried out a Sew Sweetness pattern! Many of my bag making friends don&#8217;t try Sew Sweetness patterns, despite my best efforts. Maybe she will try some of the others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about my progress on the guild UFO challenge. What I forgot to mention is that I started cutting out the Chickadee Backpack as well. I didn&#8217;t cut it all out, but I did start cutting from the large piece of quilted foam I had Colleen longarm for me months (years?) ago. This month&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/chickadee-started\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chickadee Started&#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":[316,255,544,536,362],"class_list":["post-71726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-gifts","tag-project-bag","tag-sew-sweetness","tag-the-pink-project","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726","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=71726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71796,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71726\/revisions\/71796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}