{"id":72649,"date":"2026-10-28T07:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72649"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:26:19","slug":"amethyst-vs-natalma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/amethyst-vs-natalma\/","title":{"rendered":"Amethyst vs Natalma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/finished-natalma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalma<\/a> earlier this month, I couldn&#8217;t help comparing it to the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/finished-amethyst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amethyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-72649 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/finished-natalma\/20261004_141408_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261004_141408_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Finished: Natalma - open flat\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-72593\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-72593'>\n\t\t\t\tFinished: Natalma &#8211; open flat\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\/2023\/04\/finished-amethyst\/20230416_185114_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230416_185114_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Amethyst Project Bag: inside\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-59024\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-59024'>\n\t\t\t\tAmethyst Project Bag: inside\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/amethyst-bag-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I do not have the Amethyst<\/a>, so I have to use photos for comparison. Obviously, the inside pockets and features are different. I expect this even when Sara&#8217;s bags have a similar construction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The big difference, I see is that the Natalma lays flat (is an open wide sort of design) and the lid of the Amethyst opens leaving a space under it. This is not a bag that lays flat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I did compare the finished sizes as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/amethyst-project-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amethyst<\/a> Finished Size: 14\u201d long x 13\u201d high x 3\u201d deep (35.5cm x 33cm x 7.5cm)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sewsweetness.com\/products\/the-league-of-extraordinary-bagmakers-vol-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalma<\/a> Finished Size: 14\u201d long x 12\u201d tall x 4-1\/4\u201d deep (35.6cm x 30.5cm x 10.8cm)<\/p>\n<p>As you can see the sizes are similar.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I may have mentioned, I like it when Sara uses similar construction techniques on different bags. It expands my horizons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing the Natalma earlier this month, I couldn&#8217;t help comparing it to the Amethyst. I do not have the Amethyst, so I have to use photos for comparison. Obviously, the inside pockets and features are different. I expect this even when Sara&#8217;s bags have a similar construction.&nbsp; The big difference, I see is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/amethyst-vs-natalma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amethyst vs Natalma&#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":[255,544],"class_list":["post-72649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","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\/72649","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=72649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72651,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72649\/revisions\/72651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}