{"id":23686,"date":"2014-06-12T05:50:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23686"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:24:29","slug":"donation-blocks-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/donation-blocks-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23654\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4948sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4948sm-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Donation Blocks - June 2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4948sm-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT4948sm.jpg 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donation Blocks &#8211; June 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I started a couple of these blocks at the BAMQG Retreat in hopes of adding to the giant pile, but I just couldn&#8217;t get them done. I was using a non-quarter inch foot for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/petrillo-bag-2-hacked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petrillo Bag<\/a> and that foot doesn&#8217;t work when I need a quarter inch seam.<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of extra kits at home and a set of 2.5&#8242; squares (green batik, middle of top row), so I ran them through the sewing machine one afternoon and suddenly had 6 donation squares. I&#8217;ll bring them to the next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>I have also been working on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/black-and-grey-teenaged-boy-donation-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\">grey and black donation quilt<\/a>. We are getting into our foggy time of year and I may not be able to work on it much longer as it is too depressing. Not good for a donation quilt. I have a lot of squares cut, but enough blocks for a baby quilt. I was just kind of hoping to make a teenage boy sized top as the colors would be better for a teenaged boy. I will keep running the squares through the machine and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a couple of these blocks at the BAMQG Retreat in hopes of adding to the giant pile, but I just couldn&#8217;t get them done. I was using a non-quarter inch foot for the Petrillo Bag and that foot doesn&#8217;t work when I need a quarter inch seam. I had a couple of extra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/donation-blocks-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donation Blocks&#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":[381],"tags":[546,137,349,355],"class_list":["post-23686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","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\/23686","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=23686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65931,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions\/65931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}