{"id":1674,"date":"2013-07-16T00:27:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2013-07-16T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:27:38","slug":"i-have-been-busy-sewing-grocery-bags-and-making-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2013\/07\/i-have-been-busy-sewing-grocery-bags-and-making-other-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"I have been busy sewing grocery bags and making other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50745149@N05\/9293671315\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3783\/9293671315_8e42f66b53.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1373923505011.9263\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> Yesterday I decided I needed to sew something. I have been wanting to make <a href=\"http:\/\/MadeusingakeykaLoupattern\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Keyka Lou&#39;s grocery bag<\/a> since I saw it the first time. I love how the bag is structured and always felt it could be used for lots of things. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50745149@N05\/9296447304\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3692\/9296447304_2ed0829eb6.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1373923504992.1248\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> I made two. One for my daughter and one for myself. It is a clear and easy pattern. I highly recommend it. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50745149@N05\/9293668221\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3673\/9293668221_c8c11985cd.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1373923505007.7673\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> I made the small size which is perfect for carrying my works in progress. I want to make the large size for groceries. <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50745149@N05\/9296450044\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7319\/9296450044_502b5cd31b.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1373923504960.6978\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> And today the 5yo and I played with clay today and we made sad looking figurines.  Need to make more to get better at it before I crack out the polymer clay. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50745149@N05\/9296451146\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7341\/9296451146_0baa651357.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1373923504968.165\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p> I also took out the embroidery floss and made a plain friendship bracelet.  They are so much fun to make. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50745149@N05\/9293674189\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3733\/9293674189_aa37d44632_z.jpg\" id=\"blogsy-1373923505003.159\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And some more bracelets. Sweet instant gratification.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I decided I needed to sew something. I have been wanting to make Keyka Lou&#39;s grocery bag since I saw it the first time. I love how the bag is structured and always felt it could be used for lots of things. &nbsp; I made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[155,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts","category-sewing-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-Photo-Jul-16-2013-1225-AM.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-r0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}