{"id":13289,"date":"2012-05-24T06:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=13289"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:36:15","slug":"mayjune-donation-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/mayjune-donation-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"May\/June Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Brown<\/a>
Brown Donation Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a block made partially from a kit that the BAMQG Charity Girls provided. I wasn’t that thrilled with the choices left when I went to look in the basket, but these postage stamp type blocks are very popular and the kits are arduous to make up. And beggars can’t be choosers, so I took the kit.<\/p>\n

The other thing about taking kits is that I get to use fabrics that are out of my comfort zone. I know I have some browns and beiges that have languished for a long time. I have started to use them as quilting borders and other temporary parts of quiltmaking. While I don’t want to depress some poor child with a brown quilt, perhaps I could use some of the beiges and browns for donation blocks? We will see.<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/a>
Green Donation Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made the brown block up before the May meeting and Angela took it to the meeting for me. I was mostly working on the Blue Donation Quilt<\/a>, so I only made a few blocks. I have a lot of backgrounds cut and, as I mentioned, I want to work with pink, so I am cutting some pinks to use for pink donation blocks.<\/p>\n

I am cutting 8″ squares so I can cut a bunch of 2.5″ squares all at once using the Accuquilt. That means that I don’t actually have any pink patches cut yet, but soon, hopefully.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, when I ran out of Corner Store backgrounds (because I was making them using the leaders and enders technique), so I switched to making a blue donation block. I have plenty of backgrounds for those.<\/p>\n

I had a few pieces of fabric waiting to be cut on the Accuquilt, so when Julie was over the other day, I cut those up using the pieces for the donation blocks as a demo. That means I have a few pieces ready to sew.<\/p>\n

The sad part is that I am using leaders and enders to move forward in other projects, so I haven’t done nearly as many blocks for the charity girls as I would have liked. I am trying to rest on my laurels a bit, since I did make an entire quilt and back. I’ll get back in the saddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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