{"id":32099,"date":"2016-04-28T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=32099"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:38:59","slug":"donation-blocks-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/donation-blocks-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The layout of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/fabric-of-the-year-2015-starts\/\" target=\"_blank\">FOTY 2015<\/a> is satisfying in some ways &#8211; it is great to see the piece emerge from a pile of patches. It is not satisfying in that no piecing gets done. I am trying to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklipinski.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Lipinski<\/a>&#8216;s Slow Stitching to heart and enjoy the layout process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32098\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32098\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1095sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32098 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1095sm-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Donation blocks - late April 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1095sm-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1095sm-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSCN1095sm.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donation blocks &#8211; late April 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am only sort of successful. I want to see blocks emerge from scraps of fabric! In between moving patches around FOTY 2015, I sewed more donation blocks.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see I am sort of making monochromatic blocks. Of course, to say monochromatic is a big stretch of the imagination, especially for the green on in the upper left hand corner, but I am trying out the idea. I really would like to put together an all red version of a donation quilt. At this point, I don&#8217;t have enough red squares, but I can always cut more.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this concept will go anywhere, I don&#8217;t know. I am going to keep making blocks and we will see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The layout of FOTY 2015 is satisfying in some ways &#8211; it is great to see the piece emerge from a pile of patches. It is not satisfying in that no piecing gets done. I am trying to take Mark Lipinski&#8216;s Slow Stitching to heart and enjoy the layout process. I am only sort of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/donation-blocks-6\/\" 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_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":[374],"tags":[546,137,355,72],"class_list":["post-32099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-16-patch","tag-bamqg","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\/32099","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=32099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65955,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32099\/revisions\/65955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}