{"id":72,"date":"2017-02-26T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-02-26T08:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T15:31:36","slug":"that-bag-costs-how-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"That bag costs how much???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to look at bags at the craft fairs and wonder why in the world they cost so much! \u00a0It&#8217;s just some fabric&#8230; it looks so simple&#8230; I could make that much cheaper! \u00a0Well&#8230; then I started making bags. \u00a0In a moment of insight I realized why well made bags are priced they way they are.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bag-Parts-2-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bag-Parts-2-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bag-Parts-2-768x783.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Bag-Parts-2-1004x1024.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>66 pieces of fabric and interfacing<\/p>\n<p>9 pieces of hardware<\/p>\n<p>2 zippers<\/p>\n<p>Several hours of cutting out the pieces, pattern matching, measuring and adjusting. \u00a0Several more hours pressing, adding interfacing, pressing, top stitching some\u00a0of the parts, and more pressing, before you even stitch the parts together! \u00a0I think by the time I get this one done it will be worth a fortune!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to look at bags at the craft fairs and wonder why in the world they cost so much! \u00a0It&#8217;s just some fabric&#8230; it looks so simple&#8230; I could make that much cheaper! \u00a0Well&#8230; then I started making bags. \u00a0In a moment of insight I realized why well made bags are priced they way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/?p=72\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That bag costs how much???&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ov8i-1a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruthannkaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}