{"id":36249,"date":"2017-04-03T05:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=36249"},"modified":"2025-03-09T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T18:27:06","slug":"even-more-donation-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/even-more-donation-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36237\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN1795sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN1795sm-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"Early April Donation Blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN1795sm-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN1795sm-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSCN1795sm.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early April Donation Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These blocks have nothing to do with my new direction in making donation blocks.<\/p>\n<p>I made these with the last of my white 2.5&#8243; squares. You can see that I am also getting short on foreground squares. Sadly I don&#8217;t have a minion to cut for me and cutting is not a favorite activity.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to make the blue and white donation quilt, then clear out my donation squares bin as much as I can before starting in on the all color postage stamp blocks.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about how they would look at what\u00a0 my inspiration was. I could only think of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/patchwork-wheel-donation-blocks-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patchwork Wheel blocks<\/a> we made for BAM in 2012. I went look for those blocks and they aren&#8217;t quite what I was thinking about.<\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/bamqg-meeting-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">made some blocks and even a donation quilt<\/a> that have less white in them. <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PICT2805sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">One was two colors<\/a>. It isn&#8217;t a new idea to me; it just seems new because I haven&#8217;t thought about it for while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These blocks have nothing to do with my new direction in making donation blocks. I made these with the last of my white 2.5&#8243; squares. You can see that I am also getting short on foreground squares. Sadly I don&#8217;t have a minion to cut for me and cutting is not a favorite activity. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/even-more-donation-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even More Donation Blocks&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[434],"tags":[546,137,355,72],"class_list":["post-36249","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\/36249","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=36249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65985,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36249\/revisions\/65985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}