{"id":72517,"date":"2026-10-01T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72517"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:06:08","slug":"natalma-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/natalma-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalma Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Natalma<\/a> is another Sew Sweetness<\/a> bag from the most recent release<\/a>. As with the Urban Sea backpack<\/a>, there are a lot of rounded corners. This meant I had to cut a lot of pieces out with scissors. Some of them only partially, but the prep work at the beginning of the process still took longer. I forced myself, which wasn’t hard, into my Zen prep zone and was fine with all the cutting. <\/p>\n

\"Natalma<\/a>
Natalma (Panel E) interior zipper pocket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, late on Saturday, I began to sew the bag together. The pocket in the photo, right, is the interior zipper pocket that is on the left side of the bag. I think next time, I will make the front part of the pocket vinyl. <\/p>\n

I do want to make a second one since the three ring binder mechanisms come in a package of two. I don’t want the second mechanism hanging around my workroom. I have to figure out if I will use the second one or if it will be a gift. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Natalma is another Sew Sweetness bag from the most recent release. As with the Urban Sea backpack, there are a lot of rounded corners. This meant I had to cut a lot of pieces out with scissors. Some of them only partially, but the prep work at the beginning of the process still took … Continue reading “Natalma Start”<\/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":[353,255,544],"class_list":["post-72517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-process","tag-project-bag","tag-sew-sweetness"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72517","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=72517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72539,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72517\/revisions\/72539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}