{"id":48,"date":"2007-01-24T19:51:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/patchwork-embellished-tote\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T18:29:44","slug":"patchwork-embellished-tote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/patchwork-embellished-tote\/","title":{"rendered":"patchwork embellished tote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"patchwork<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

I made this bag for the January One Hour Craft Challenge. It’s a smallish tote because I made it to be a lunchbag-in-disguise so I can bring food into work without being too obvious \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I made up the pattern\u00a0using the size of my lunchbox\u00a0as the base of the bag. I used a thick black fabric for the outside, so it won’t\u00a0look grubby once I’ve used it for a while.\u00a0I think it’s supposed to be suit fabric, but it works for me as bag fabric! I made the lining out of thin black vinyl, so\u00a0the interior of the bag can be wiped clean – always useful when it’s going to carry food.<\/p>\n

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I made the handles from the same fabric as the outer bag, and the bag fastens with one snap in the middle of the top edges.\u00a0I also\u00a0added a pair of magnets on each side at the top (inside the lining) to stop the sides from sagging outwards when the bag is half empty.<\/p>\n

The crowning glory is my machine-appliqued patchwork design on the front, inspired by Wee Wonderfuls’ Hillary’s zig-zag’d patchwork bag<\/a>, which in turn came from the Japanese craft book Machine Made Patchworks<\/a>. I changed the method a bit – I used\u00a0HeatnBond to iron the patchwork squares into place on my fabric, and then used one careful line of zigzag stitching to anchor all the edges. I completed this step first,\u00a0before even cutting the fabric for the bag.\u00a0I’ve wanted to try this for months,\u00a0and I am unfeasibly pleased with how it turned out. I’ve never even used anything other than straight stitch on my sewing machine before!<\/p>\n

\"machine<\/p>\n

Love love love this patchwork! I have some fabric left over, so I’ll definitely have to make something else to match my tote…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 I made this bag for the January One Hour Craft Challenge. It’s a smallish tote because I made it to be a lunchbag-in-disguise so I can bring food into work without being too obvious \ud83d\ude42 I made up the pattern\u00a0using the size of my lunchbox\u00a0as the base of the bag. I used a thick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}