{"id":3199,"date":"2008-08-06T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weareheavyduty.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:54:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T19:54:16","slug":"jenny-sigler-handmade-felted-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/jenny-sigler-handmade-felted-purse\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenny Sigler &#8211; Handmade Crocheted and Felted Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jenny-felted-purse-big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-689\" title=\"Jenny Sigler -- Handmade Crocheted and Felted Purse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jenny-felted-purse.jpg\" alt=\"Jenny Sigler -- Handmade Crocheted and Felted Purse\" width=\"500\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click for big)<\/p>\n<p>My mother, Jenny Sigler, made this crocheted and felted purse for my SIL, Kellie. Jenny\/Mom crocheted this purse without a pattern, because she is a complete and total risk taker! Then, she felted it by washing it in very hot water. I know nothing about this &#8220;felting&#8221; but she says the object will shrink by about a third, and that it makes the weave (sorry if that&#8217;s the wrong word) of the yarn somewhat obscured. To finish it off she added some grosgrain ribbon to the strap so it wouldn&#8217;t stretch out. &#8220;Who dares, wins&#8221; and I think this purse turned out super-nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/2007\/08\/07\/jenny-sigler-school-gear-and-fashion-accessories-from-thrift-store-jeans\/\">More by Mom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click for big) My mother, Jenny Sigler, made this crocheted and felted purse for my SIL, Kellie. Jenny\/Mom crocheted this purse without a pattern, because she is a complete and total risk taker! Then, she felted it by washing it in very hot water. I know nothing about this &#8220;felting&#8221; but she says the object [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,348],"tags":[374,384,446,422],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friends","category-handmade","tag-crochet","tag-felting","tag-handmade","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}