{"id":3190,"date":"2017-09-04T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2017-09-04T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:02:48","slug":"boxy-tote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/boxy-tote\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxy Tote"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using a tyvek tote from a quilt show as a knitting bag for the past few years. It worked okay, but lately it was tipping over if I didn’t watch how I had things arranged inside. Yes, I could have taken some of my less-used paraphernalia out, but I’m so short on storage space at this point that I simply prefer to keep my knitting supplies all in one place. So how to solve the problem of the “lazy” bag?<\/p>\n

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Bag closed — mostly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then one day I saw this pattern<\/a> at Quiltique<\/a>, my local quilt shop. Hmmm … the metal stays in the top looked very promising in terms of keeping the bag stable and upright. I purchased the pattern and the various supplies called for in the instructions, but I had to get the zipper at Joann’s, since the quilt shop didn’t have the right kind. And then I got to work, finishing after just a few days of work, and helped by the lack of interruptions since my husband was away. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Open — and filled — bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s just one glitch, which is very disappointing. Despite having tested the zipper multiple times, both before sewing it into the bag and during construction, it has now failed. I can zip it partially closed by fiddling a lot, but it simply won’t close all the way. \ud83d\ude41 Oh well. The size of the bag and its multitude of pockets work very well for my knitting! I’ll just resign myself to leaving it at least mostly open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Yes, I could have taken some of my less-used paraphernalia out, but I’m so short on storage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[199,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-3190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-quilting","7":"tag-bag","8":"tag-knitting","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Ps","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2458,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/ack\/","url_meta":{"origin":3190,"position":0},"title":"Ack!","author":"Sandy","date":"January 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm in shock. 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