It started when I ran out of white squares. While I have more white charm packs and can cut them, I didn’t want to stop and take the time. I have seen some quilts that use with all colored 2.5″ squares and no white. I have been thinking of making some of these types of postage stamp blocks and now might be the time.<\/p>\n
Sunny Skies<\/a> from Missouri Star is an idea although not exactly what I was thinking. Southern Belle also has a design<\/a> that would work. It isn’t exactly what I was thinking and is still very similar to what we are doing now, but without the white. Searching for “16 patch quilt” gave me a lot more ideas, though not the one I had in my head. Putting some blocks<\/a> on point would use up other sized fabrics. I saw 2 16 patch X quilt<\/a>s (one called Arkansas Road<\/a>) that were really great. Also not what I saw somewhere, but definite possibilities. Finally, I saw one that looked like a tile floor<\/a> and was interesting enough to have some possibilities for gift quilts using leaders and enders.<\/p>\n I seem to have a lot of black and dark grey squares, so I decided to head in that direction by making a couple of blocks with those darker colors as background.<\/p>\n This plan serves two purposes. It clears out some of those darker 2.5″ squares and moves me towards a different kind of quilt using the same format.<\/p>\n I am cognizant of the need to make these blocks bright and cheerful. Black and dark grey are not always bright and cheerful, so I have paired the darks with brights, for the most part. I like that moon, but the dark blue does create kind of dark hole.<\/p>\n I have enough blocks to make another quilt from a serious bout of donation block making late last year<\/a>. I’ll keep donating the blocks I made until I am ready to make the blue and white donation quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No joke. I mentioned earlier this week that I was trying something new with donation blocks. It started when I ran out of white squares. While I have more white charm packs and can cut them, I didn’t want to stop and take the time. I have seen some quilts that use with all colored … Continue reading “Moving Donation Blocks in a New Direction”<\/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":[434],"tags":[546,137,355,72],"class_list":["post-36189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","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\/36189","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=36189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65986,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36189\/revisions\/65986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Black](\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN1798sm-144x300.jpg\")
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