{"id":2569,"date":"2015-04-10T18:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2015-04-10T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T18:07:20","slug":"pretty-perfect-pocket-purse-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Perfect Pocket Purse Variation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blood<\/a><\/p>\n

Today you would never guess that there was tremendous storm last night. It is sunny with misty clouds scattered about a blue sky. Greg has done a spring burn in the prairie sections of our property, so the sprouts are easy to see as they poke out of hibernation. These are Bloodroot, one of our yearly favorites.<\/p>\n

Last week I promised to show you a variation on the Pocket Purse pattern<\/a>. So here it is.<\/p>\n

\"Sassaman<\/a><\/p>\n

This purse has a very different attitude than the bright hand-embroidered Prairie Chic<\/a> one. Feminine, elegant and refined would be a good way to describe this new bag. It is embellished with digitized machine embroidery, also inspired by Prairie Chic motifs. These designs come from the HoopSisters Design Embroidery Series: Prairie Chic.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sassaman<\/a><\/p>\n

I took individual motifs from the collection and arranged them to fit the purse pattern right inside the sewing machine. The largest hoops I have for my BERNINA 880<\/a> are the Large Oval and the Mega hoop, so I rehooped for each of the 3 groupings. I am getting more confident and adventurous playing with the embroidery module. Of course, having my own designs to play with has doubled my incentive.<\/p>\n

Also, since I naturally work in a collage technique with my appliqued art quilts, it feels quite natural to “Ouija” these motifs into new and interesting compositions.<\/p>\n

\"Sassaman<\/a><\/p>\n

My BERNINA 880<\/a> also has many utilitarian and fancy stitches which I love to explore. I like to use the built-in stitches to enhance my quilts. Embroidery is an easy way to add another layer of interest. But I am always striving to make the application of embroidery look natural and organic, as opposed to stiff and mechanical. Here, I deliberately stitched the design so the pattern doesn’t line up. The embroidery is also repeated on the shoulder strap. And, as always, we have dingle-ball fringe at the bottom… icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

\"Sassaman<\/a><\/p>\n

The outer body of the purse is black linen. The inside is lined with one of my favorite vintage FreeSpirit<\/a> designs, Sprigs from the Sunshine and Shadow collection.<\/p>\n

This will be another busy week in the Sassaman studio in preparation for my trip to Huntsville and several impending deadlines. Stay tuned for our next bit of stitching inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today you would never guess that there was tremendous storm last night. It is sunny with misty clouds scattered about a blue sky. Greg has done a spring burn in the prairie sections of our property, so the sprouts are easy to see as they poke out of hibernation. These are Bloodroot, one of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[5,31,10,32,33,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-embroidery","category-flowers","category-hoopsisters","category-prairie-chic","category-wearables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janesassaman.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}