{"id":45159,"date":"2019-02-22T07:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T14:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45159"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:31:41","slug":"improv-block-donation-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/improv-block-donation-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Improv Block Donation Top"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember I said I went over to Tim’s<\/a> the other to meet with a group from BAM and traded donation quilts with him?<\/p>\n

\"Fun<\/a>
Fun & Cheerful Donation Quilt Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made a back for the fun and cheerful quilt<\/a> I took from him. I started with pink fabrics, but then realized I should use orange. The quilt top has other colors, but came across as mostly orange to me, so orange it was.<\/p>\n

The color will be great for a boy, but not the flowers unless the boy is open minded and doesn’t mind a few flowers.<\/p>\n

\"Fun<\/a>
Fun & Cheerful Donation Top with border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also added a small border to the top. Somehow it didn’t look finished to me, so I added a border. A slightly larger quilt is always better IMO.<\/p>\n

The blocks remind me of the Tina Michalik class<\/a> BAM had at Always Quilting a few years ago. It is a fun quilt and the texture of the piecing is really nice. I think the border frames it. I do wonder if I just made it un-modern by adding the border. C’est la vie.<\/p>\n

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The Friday color and creativity posts will return soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember I said I went over to Tim’s the other to meet with a group from BAM and traded donation quilts with him? I made a back for the fun and cheerful quilt I took from him. I started with pink fabrics, but then realized I should use orange. The quilt top has other colors, … Continue reading “Improv Block Donation Top”<\/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":[477],"tags":[137,355,371],"class_list":["post-45159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good","tag-improv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45159","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=45159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66027,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45159\/revisions\/66027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}