{"id":7967,"date":"2011-10-02T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2011-10-02T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T20:00:01","slug":"snapshot-sewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111002-7967.htm","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: Sewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last sat down at the sewing machine&#8211;and I was definitely due.<\/p>\n<p>It just so happens that I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/nancyscouture.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/so-many-cards-so-little-room.html\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial for a very cute credit card holder<\/a> when I was browsing through <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/bekahcubed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>&#8211;and thought it would be a wonderful easy project.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/images\/20111001-01.jpg\" alt=\"Credit Card Holder\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Of course, being myself, I couldn&#8217;t just make the holder as described. I decided this would be an ideal time to try out my idea of using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/blog\/en\/2008\/fusing-plastic-bags-with-the-etsy-labs\/\" target=\"_blank\">fused plastic bags<\/a> as interfacing.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, it is possible to use fused plastic bags as interfacing, but it requires some modifications. You have to sew the facing in, a slightly more difficult task then ironing it on (not a biggie.) And, you have to do any ironing after sewing on an EXTREMELY low setting so as not to melt the plastic further. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"images\/20111001-02.jpg\" alt=\"Credit Card Holder\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not unequivocally excited about the fused plastic bag interfacing idea, but I&#8217;m pleased enough with the results that I&#8217;m ready to try it again with more non-clothing sewing (wouldn&#8217;t want unbreathable plastic interfacing in your clothes, ICK!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last sat down at the sewing machine&#8211;and I was definitely due. It just so happens that I saw a tutorial for a very cute credit card holder when I was browsing through Pinterest&#8211;and thought it would be a wonderful easy project. Of course, being myself, I couldn&#8217;t just make &#8230; <a title=\"Snapshot: Sewing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111002-7967.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snapshot: Sewing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[995],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}