{"id":23944,"date":"2014-07-10T06:17:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T13:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23944"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:24:02","slug":"black-grey-donation-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/black-grey-donation-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Black &#038; Grey Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23945\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5069sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5069sm-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"Black\/Grey Donation Blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5069sm-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/PICT5069sm.jpg 941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black\/Grey Donation Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I think I am back in the saddle with the Black &amp; Grey donation blocks. I haven&#8217;t really worked on the piece since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/blackgrey-donation-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">February 8<\/a> of this year. I feel bad about that, but I can only do what I can do. I figure that doing something slowly is better than doing nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I have about 15 blocks now and am still thinking of making a teenaged boy donation quilt. It feels dauntingly large, though and I don&#8217;t know if I can make all of those blocks. Again, I have run out of a lot of choices of different fabrics, which I know won&#8217;t matter in 6 months, but now feels constraining.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just keep plugging away as best I can and see how it comes out. Kelly offered to help and I am hoping she has made some blocks to add to mine to spice up what I have made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I am back in the saddle with the Black &amp; Grey donation blocks. I haven&#8217;t really worked on the piece since February 8 of this year. I feel bad about that, but I can only do what I can do. I figure that doing something slowly is better than doing nothing. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/black-grey-donation-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black &#038; Grey 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[546,137,282,349,355,331],"class_list":["post-23944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-16-patch","tag-bamqg","tag-black-grey-teenaged-boy-donation-quilt","tag-blocks","tag-doing-good","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944","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=23944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65930,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions\/65930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}