{"id":1492,"date":"2009-03-15T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/quilted_purses\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T21:10:44","slug":"quilted_purses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/quilted_purses\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilted Purses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned some time ago that I was working on quilted purses for my nieces.  I finished them, and they were given as gifts late last year.  I have a picture of one to show you.  My niece has always been interested in frogs and things of that sort.  I found an incredible fabric that had chameleons or newts on it, and bought it even though I didn&#8217;t have a project in mind.<br \/>\nI found a pamphlet with instructions for quilted totes, duffel bags, purses, and accessories, and figured that would be great for quick gifts.  Unfortunately, what I didn&#8217;t stop to think about was that I was going to have to quilt the fabric, rather than using a pre-quilted fabric.  Of course, I did it by machine, but it took me days to get it right.  I needed to work out tension and the needle size to get my very ancient machine to cooperate.  I ripped out a lot of stitches and re-did them, until I got them right.  And having said that, the job was still that of a novice at machine quilting.<br \/>\nThis is a picture of the bag I did for my frog-loving, artistic niece:<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beccas Purse for Blog.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/Beccas%20Purse%20for%20Blog.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nI did a similar purse for her older sister which was in red and black with gold Japanese calligraphy.  She is very into anime (or was&#8230;.I hope she still is), so that&#8217;s what helped me to design her purse.  I may have a picture of her purse to share one day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned some time ago that I was working on quilted purses for my nieces. I finished them, and they were given as gifts late last year. I have a picture of one to show you. My niece has always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/quilted_purses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}