{"id":29869,"date":"2015-11-04T05:45:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=29869"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:45:03","slug":"donation-block-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/donation-block-extravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation Block Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29879\" style=\"width: 159px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN0672sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN0672sm-159x300.jpg\" alt=\"November Donation Blocks\" width=\"159\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN0672sm-159x300.jpg 159w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN0672sm-542x1024.jpg 542w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCN0672sm.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 85vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">November Donation Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes. More donation blocks. They were part of my sewing work over the past two weekends. I am now out of cut background squares so I will need to cut more. I have some blue dottish on white fabric scraps leftover from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2014\/star-sampler\/\" target=\"_blank\">Star Sampler<\/a>, which I might use. Since they are scraps, they won&#8217;t go far and will be a stopgap.<\/p>\n<p>These are on the dull side. I cut up a bunch of foreground fabrics some time ago. I didn&#8217;t feel like I wanted to use those fabrics in a quilt and am working my way through them for donation blocks. Someone will like them, right?<\/p>\n<p>I am not doing that again. I decided that if I have fabric I don&#8217;t want to use, I&#8217;ll just donate it rather than using it like this. It isn&#8217;t enjoyable and I want to infuse these donation blocks good energy so that is my plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. More donation blocks. They were part of my sewing work over the past two weekends. I am now out of cut background squares so I will need to cut more. I have some blue dottish on white fabric scraps leftover from the Star Sampler, which I might use. Since they are scraps, they won&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/donation-block-extravaganza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donation Block Extravaganza&#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":[379],"tags":[546,137,349,355,72],"class_list":["post-29869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-16-patch","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869","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=29869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65965,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29869\/revisions\/65965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}