{"id":24500,"date":"2014-08-21T06:28:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T13:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=24500"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:09:22","slug":"the-kindness-of-not-so-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-kindness-of-not-so-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindness of Not-So-Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24476\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5190sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24476\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5190sm-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"Cheryl's blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5190sm-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5190sm.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl&#8217;s blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/black-grey-donation-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">As I mentioned last time<\/a>, I was really feeling quite stalled on my Black\/Grey donation quilt project. Jackie and Cheryl, who I mentioned briefly (in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/doing-more-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">subsequent post<\/a>), sent me a total of 5 blocks, which when I laid it all out, ended up creating a whole row of the quilt top. I like the clock fabric that Cheryl used. Even though it, and a few of the other fabrics are not specifically\u00a0 grey, it reads grey, and the other fabrics add interest and blend well, with all the other fabrics.<\/p>\n<p>The fabric choices add to the interest of the quilt, I think.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24477\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5189sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24477\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5189sm-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"Jackie's Blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5189sm-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5189sm.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie&#8217;s Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jackie also made some interesting choices. I think when I mix these up with mine, they will add movement and make some of my duplicate fabrics not as prominent.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Ladies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last time, I was really feeling quite stalled on my Black\/Grey donation quilt project. Jackie and Cheryl, who I mentioned briefly (in a subsequent post), sent me a total of 5 blocks, which when I laid it all out, ended up creating a whole row of the quilt top. I like the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-kindness-of-not-so-strangers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Kindness of Not-So-Strangers&#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":[282,355],"class_list":["post-24500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-black-grey-teenaged-boy-donation-quilt","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\/24500","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=24500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}