{"id":44664,"date":"2019-01-04T07:06:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=44664"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:33:21","slug":"new-year-new-donation-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-year-new-donation-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year New Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44662\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20181231_171733_5821095193690427535100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20181231_171733_5821095193690427535100-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"Strip blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20181231_171733_5821095193690427535100-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20181231_171733_5821095193690427535100-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20181231_171733_5821095193690427535100-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_20181231_171733_5821095193690427535100-1200x912.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strip blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am not sure what exactly made me think of it, but part of it was contemplating my scrap pile. After cutting a bunch of squares with the Accuquilt, I still had a lot of strips. Also, as I have said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/wp-15399234023545000520706447227175.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a block Alison showed me<\/a>&nbsp; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/meeting-inspiration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our discussion<\/a> inspired me. Instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/october-donation-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making the regular 16 patches<\/a>, I have been making these strip blocks. I want to use up scraps and I have a lot of strips left.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to start with my green scrap drawer. It is closest to my sewing machine.<\/p>\n<p>So far I have three blocks done. I&#8217;d like to make the blocks for the entire quilt green, but I don&#8217;t know if I will have enough strips\/scraps to do that. I&#8217;ll see and will be flexible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what exactly made me think of it, but part of it was contemplating my scrap pile. After cutting a bunch of squares with the Accuquilt, I still had a lot of strips. Also, as I have said, a block Alison showed me&nbsp; and our discussion inspired me. Instead of making the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/new-year-new-donation-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Year New 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_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":[477],"tags":[137,349,512,355],"class_list":["post-44664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-color-strip","tag-doing-good"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44664","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=44664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66032,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44664\/revisions\/66032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}