{"id":72260,"date":"2026-09-15T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72260"},"modified":"2026-09-07T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:28:16","slug":"even-more-pc-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/even-more-pc-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Pandora Charisma #2 Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the Labor Day weekend, when I wasn&#8217;t at Sew Day, working on the Pandora Charisma #2. I really wanted to finish it, but didn&#8217;t quite get there. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/additional-pandora-charisma-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ripping that happened took time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I sewed some of the panels together wrong. The panels are sewn back to back once they are all done. I sewed two of them to the &#8216;wrong&#8217; sides. I thought it would be fine, but I found the final assembly to be really confusing. I couldn&#8217;t quite translate the panel in the instructions into the way I had sewn them during the final assembly. I ripped back all the stitching and sewed the correct panels to each other.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-72260 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/more-pandora-charisma-2-2\/20260830_182720_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260830_182720_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Pandora Charisma zipper\/slip pocket\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-72161\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-72161'>\n\t\t\t\tPandora Charisma zipper\/slip pocket\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/even-more-pc-progress\/20260906_140110_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_140110_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Pandora Charisma zipper\/slip pocket-new\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-72262\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-72262'>\n\t\t\t\tPandora Charisma zipper\/slip pocket-new\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Since I was taking the panels apart anyway, I took the opportunity to fix one of the vinyl pockets. I thought the crookedness of the one on the left would bug me since it wasn&#8217;t quite extreme enough to be a design feature. I didn&#8217;t have any more of that turquoise foldover elastic, so I used some black, which looks good. Maybe better.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72263\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_155055_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72263\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_155055_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pandora Charisma #2 binding in progress\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_155055_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260906_155055_wm-sm.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pandora Charisma #2 binding in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did figure out why the binding of the last one was so difficult. I was supposed to sew both sides of the binding at one time. I just figured that out through a cryptic note I had written to myself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Putting the binding on this way is difficult. My machine was able to handle it, but it doesn&#8217;t look great and I think it might be too big for the space &#8211; the binding isn&#8217;t filled. The completed binding seems to get in the way of the zipper also, though I have to wait and see since I need to do some trimming and clearing up of threads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the Labor Day weekend, when I wasn&#8217;t at Sew Day, working on the Pandora Charisma #2. I really wanted to finish it, but didn&#8217;t quite get there. The ripping that happened took time. I sewed some of the panels together wrong. The panels are sewn back to back once they are all done. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/even-more-pc-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even More Pandora Charisma #2 Progress&#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":[353,255,560],"class_list":["post-72260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-process","tag-project-bag","tag-sewfisticated"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260","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=72260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72268,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions\/72268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}