{"id":34214,"date":"2016-10-10T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=34214"},"modified":"2016-10-08T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T17:35:09","slug":"bam-retreat-charity-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/bam-retreat-charity-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"BAM Retreat: Charity Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned many times, BAM does a lot of charity work. Peggy and Michelle work hard to make it fun. Right before the retreat, the guild was the fortunate recipient of a bonanza of fabric. It wasn&#8217;t ugly, crappy fabric that people often try to offload. It was relatively new yardage as well as pre-cuts. There were charm packs, large and small jelly rolls and layer cakes.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-34214 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1475453939989-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475453939989-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"BAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Joelle)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34190\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34190'>\n\t\t\t\tBAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Joelle)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1475453889972-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475453889972-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"BAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Kelly O!)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34189\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34189'>\n\t\t\t\tBAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Kelly O!)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1475451789984-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475451789984-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"BAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Annemarie)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34159\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34159'>\n\t\t\t\tBAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Annemarie)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1475451732724-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475451732724-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"BAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Joelle)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34158\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34158'>\n\t\t\t\tBAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Joelle)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1475451669621-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475451669621-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"BAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Mary C)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34157\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34157'>\n\t\t\t\tBAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Mary C)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-1475451614136-jpeg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475451614136-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"BAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Mary C)\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-34156\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-34156'>\n\t\t\t\tBAM Retreat Charity Quilt (Mary C)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>As a result a lot of new charity quilts were put together at the retreat. The above is a small sampling. They are generally smaller, but so bright and cheerful! Peggy was pushing the Disappearing 9 Patch pattern, so a few of those showed up using the charm squares.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34165\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475452204067.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475452204067-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Retreat Charity Block\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475452204067-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475452204067-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475452204067-768x765.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475452204067-1024x1020.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/wp-1475452204067-1200x1196.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retreat Charity Block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My pathetic effort to the charity endeavor was one block. the Charity Girls had the regular postage stamp kits available, so I took one when I needed some leaders and enders for my City Sampler blocks and made the block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have mentioned many times, BAM does a lot of charity work. Peggy and Michelle work hard to make it fun. Right before the retreat, the guild was the fortunate recipient of a bonanza of fabric. It wasn&#8217;t ugly, crappy fabric that people often try to offload. It was relatively new yardage as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/bam-retreat-charity-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BAM Retreat: Charity Projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[137,355,127],"class_list":["post-34214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good","tag-retreat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34214","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}