{"id":724,"date":"2007-09-24T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T18:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=724"},"modified":"2015-11-01T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:20:21","slug":"linen-and-silk-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"linen and silk bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been on my list of things to do for a few weeks, and finally I have started and finished it! A miracle!!!!!<\/p>\n

John asked me to make a bag for a birthday present, the lady in question is an extremely talented dressmaker, she makes the most wonderful wedding dresses and couture dresses, so no pressure on me!<\/p>\n

I decided that I wanted to stick to an old favourite, but bring in something new and slightly different to the ones I have been producing to sell on Etsy. I used to work with dupion silk in the past, but after having children my fingers got really rough and I found it impossible to work with, and very frustrating too. So I have a pile of silk sitting in a blanket box waiting to be used, and used it has been, well some of!<\/p>\n

\"karen_bag_strips.jpg\"<\/p>\n

I wanted to use a sort of patchwork, but funky style, so off I ploughed,<\/p>\n

\"karen_bag_block_reverse.jpg\"<\/p>\n

until shockingly, to me at least, I had produced this!<\/p>\n

\"karen_bag_block.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Looks quite good doesn’t it, so I stitched some linen on the top and bottom,<\/p>\n

\"karen_bag_stiched.jpg\"<\/p>\n

and it’s almost a bag. But, I wanted more, I wanted it to have a bit more to it, a bit more me I guess : ) So I decided to do this,<\/p>\n

\"karen_bag_detail.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Between the silk\/linen combination and the lining I added some cotton wadding, so the silk feels nicer, and has a bit more substance, and this works really well with the machine embroidery.<\/p>\n

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I really like it, it is a one off, and hopefully we will give it to her later this week, here hoping she likes it too!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has been on my list of things to do for a few weeks, and finally I have started and finished it! A miracle!!!!! John asked me to make a bag for a birthday present, the lady in question is an extremely talented dressmaker, she makes the most wonderful wedding dresses and couture dresses, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing-fabric","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raspberry.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}