{"id":13629,"date":"2012-06-02T06:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T13:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:35:50","slug":"donation-blocks-galore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/donation-blocks-galore\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation Blocks Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13630\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1692sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13630\" title=\"Pink Donation Block\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1692sm-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Pink Donation Block\" width=\"219\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1692sm-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1692sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1692sm.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 85vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink Donation Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am still having an inordinate amount of fun making these simple blocks. What is it about them?<\/p>\n<p>I brought out the Accuquilt Go! cutter over the long weekend and cut a bunch of larger squares I had been saving into 2.5&#8243; squares. All pink all the time. Yes, I am going to make a pink top for some wonderful child. I hope s\/he likes pink, because none of my nieces or nephews do and I have a lot of pink.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I did cut up some slightly larger squares to make 2.5&#8243; plain background squares. I&#8217;ll have to see if that block fits in with the other blocks that have black on white fabrics.<\/p>\n<p>The Charity Girls at BAMQG have put out a <a href=\"http:\/\/bayareamodernquiltguild.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/q2-charity-block-new-pattern-new.html\" target=\"_blank\">new block design<\/a>. I know they want to keep people interested, but I am still interested in this block. They said they would keep taking these blocks, so I will keep making them. I am doing to keep these pink ones and put the top together myself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13631\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1689sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13631\" title=\"Blue Donation Block\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1689sm-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Donation Block\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1689sm-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1689sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1689sm.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Donation Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am still cutting 2.5&#8243; squares when I do my normal &#8220;new fabric&#8221; cutting, so I have other colors besides pink as well. I will give these non-pink blocks in so someone else can work on them.<\/p>\n<p>I found a few different blues, so I cut some squares out of them to work with.<\/p>\n<p>One of the fun things about this project is putting the squares together in different ways. In the blue block, I probably should not have put the two solids in the same row. Fortunately, in the grand scheme, it probably won&#8217;t matter much. This blue blocks looks rather cheerful, I think.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13632\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1688sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13632\" title=\"Another Pink Donation Block\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1688sm-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"Another Pink Donation Block\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1688sm-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1688sm.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another Pink Donation Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have a lot of the same fabrics for the pink blocks, because I cut up large enough pieces of fabric to make 9 2.5&#8243; squares.<\/p>\n<p>I did dig out some scraps that were large enough to make some 2.5&#8243; squares out of. I was surprised since TFQ cannibalized my scrap bins quite efficiently. The few different fabrics will add interest and the similar fabrics will provide cohesion. That is what I am telling myself anyway. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>In the back of my mind I am planning to use all of the black on white fabric I bought for the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/flowering-snowball-top-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flower Snowball<\/a>. It is a lot, because I will never learn just how little fabric a quilt really needs, especially if I use the fabric for one piece in the quilt. We&#8217;ll see if I actually use it all. I like the black and white as background. It prevents me from going to buy more background fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still having an inordinate amount of fun making these simple blocks. What is it about them? I brought out the Accuquilt Go! cutter over the long weekend and cut a bunch of larger squares I had been saving into 2.5&#8243; squares. All pink all the time. Yes, I am going to make a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/donation-blocks-galore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donation Blocks Galore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[401],"tags":[546,137,349,355],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-16-patch","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-doing-good"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65949,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions\/65949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}