{"id":45548,"date":"2019-04-02T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45548"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:30:13","slug":"red-strip-donation-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/red-strip-donation-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Strip Donation Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The red scrap drawer is overflowing so red strips are next. I made 5 of the strip blocks on Sunday night and 3 more yesterday.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45548 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\/20190401_090901_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190401_090901_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Red strip donation block n.1\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45550\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45550'>\n\t\t\t\tRed strip donation block n.1\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\/20190401_091015_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190401_091015_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Red strip donation block n.2\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45551\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45551'>\n\t\t\t\tRed strip donation block n.2\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\/20190331_205817_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190331_205817_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Red strip donation block n.3\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45552\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45552'>\n\t\t\t\tRed strip donation block n.3\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\/20190401_091129_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190401_091129_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Red strip donation block n.4\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45553\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45553'>\n\t\t\t\tRed strip donation block n.4\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\/20190331_200614_wm6608368227540024512-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/20190331_200614_wm6608368227540024512-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Red strip donation block n.5\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45558\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45558'>\n\t\t\t\tRed strip donation block n.5\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>One thing I noticed is that I have a lot of dots on red background prints. They are different, but I am trying to keep them separated by other fabrics so they don&#8217;t flow into each other. I also get to visit with some fabrics I didn&#8217;t have much of, but really liked.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the scraps in my scrap drawer is kind of crazy. I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking putting such large (half a FQ-ish) into the scrap drawer. Of course, I don&#8217;t have anywhere else to put that size, so I guess it makes sense. I&#8217;ll have to cut some of the scraps into sizes I need for other projects as I work on these donation quilts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red scrap drawer is overflowing so red strips are next. I made 5 of the strip blocks on Sunday night and 3 more yesterday. One thing I noticed is that I have a lot of dots on red background prints. They are different, but I am trying to keep them separated by other fabrics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/red-strip-donation-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red Strip Donation Quilt&#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":[477],"tags":[137,512,355,72],"class_list":["post-45548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","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\/45548","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=45548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66023,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45548\/revisions\/66023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}