{"id":73004,"date":"2026-11-15T07:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=73004"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T23:26:57","slug":"boy-scout-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/boy-scout-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scout Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73006\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73006\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113648_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73006\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113648_wm-sm-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Boy Scout bag\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113648_wm-sm-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113648_wm-sm-768x792.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113648_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 85vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boy Scout bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know you thought my Boy Scout days were over. You were correct they are. However, I still have an interest, so when I saw this bag at the City Made Grand Opening I asked to take some photos.<\/p>\n<p>I talked to the lady for a few minutes. She said the bag was made from a vintage leader&#8217;s shirt. My SIL#2 said that wasn&#8217;t right, but who knows. I think it is a good use of the old shirts. The YM has his shirt, but I think I will in corporate it into a quilt or have it framed with his Eagle award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73005\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73005\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113636_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-73005\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113636_wm-sm-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Boy Scout bag - back\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113636_wm-sm-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113636_wm-sm-768x856.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20260815_113636_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 85vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boy Scout bag &#8211; back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The back used other parts of the shirt, including the pocket.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a good reuse\/recylce\/upcycle idea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know you thought my Boy Scout days were over. You were correct they are. However, I still have an interest, so when I saw this bag at the City Made Grand Opening I asked to take some photos. I talked to the lady for a few minutes. She said the bag was made from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/boy-scout-bag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boy Scout Bag&#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_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":[330,105],"class_list":["post-73004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-other-artists","tag-reuserecycle"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004","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=73004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73044,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73004\/revisions\/73044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}