{"id":72818,"date":"2026-11-05T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72818"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:37:35","slug":"a-whole-bunch-of-mini-one-handle-totes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-whole-bunch-of-mini-one-handle-totes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whole Bunch of Mini One Handle Totes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Prepped:<\/a>
Prepped: Mini One Handle Totes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent almost a whole day before my trip prepping fabrics and interfacing for 15 Mini One Handle Totes. As I have mentioned, these are an easy project and I wanted to cross them off my list.<\/p>\n

I went through the Sorbet fabrics and pulled out pieces that were large enough to cut the pieces I needed, then I went through and cut the interfacing. I spent several hours on the project, but it made the sewing so much easier. <\/p>\n

Once I got to MaryM’s I started sewing a couple of them. We were talking about bags, which I really enjoy, so I didn’t plan on getting a lot of them done. One problem I ran into immediately was turning the bags through the tiny handle. The problem is the DecorBond. I am still paying for and kicking myself for accidentally buying a bolt of this stuff. I was stuck, though since I decided to plow through some of this bolt by using it for this project. <\/p>\n

I yanked and pulled and swore under my breath as I tried to turn the bags I sewed so I could make progress. I didn’t actually resolve this problem until I got to Portland. I tried to buy hemostats as mine were at home, but failed. Sidebar: Google lies, so don’t believe it. Google said three stores had them and none of them did.<\/p>\n

\"Gaggle<\/a>
Gaggle of Mini One Handle Totes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I solved the problem eventually by stuffing the ProFuse side through the hole first. I still could have used the hemostats, but I was able to speed up the process of turning the bags through this method. Also, I felt relieved since I could make some progress. I finished 10 of them and four more nearly done. I’ll be able to finish them soon.<\/p>\n

I am pleased with how much of this project I was able to complete. I was not happy that this was pretty much the only project I almost finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent almost a whole day before my trip prepping fabrics and interfacing for 15 Mini One Handle Totes. As I have mentioned, these are an easy project and I wanted to cross them off my list. I went through the Sorbet fabrics and pulled out pieces that were large enough to cut the pieces … Continue reading “A Whole Bunch of Mini One Handle Totes”<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[558],"tags":[137,316,255],"class_list":["post-72818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bamqg","tag-gifts","tag-project-bag"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72818","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=72818"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72924,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72818\/revisions\/72924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}