{"id":48473,"date":"2020-02-07T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48473"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:44:52","slug":"more-new-blue-donation-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/more-new-blue-donation-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"More New Blue Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-48473 gallery-columns-2 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\/2020\/02\/more-new-blue-donation-blocks\/20200202_185417_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200202_185417_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Blue strip donation block 5\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-48478\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-48478'>\n\t\t\t\tBlue strip donation block 5\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\/2020\/02\/more-new-blue-donation-blocks\/20200202_174232_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200202_174232_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Blue strip donation block 4\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-48477\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-48477'>\n\t\t\t\tBlue strip donation block 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\/2020\/02\/more-new-blue-donation-blocks\/20200202_144045_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200202_144045_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Blue strip donation block 3\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-48476\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-48476'>\n\t\t\t\tBlue strip donation block 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\/2020\/02\/more-new-blue-donation-blocks\/20200202_143906_wm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200202_143906_wm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Blue strip donation block 2\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-48474\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-48474'>\n\t\t\t\tBlue strip donation block 2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I worked on the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/ultimate-carry-all-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UCAB<\/a>&#8216;s short front pocket over the weekend. I wanted to incorporate my<a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/ucab-clippy-pocket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Clippy Pocket hack<\/a> into an actual pocket. As I worked on that complicated project, I made donation blocks as <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltsbyjen.ca\/what-are-leaders-and-enders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaders and enders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am really happy with these blocks. They are more fun to make than the white. I have a lot of scraps, but within those scraps are a lot of strips of different lengths, so the blocks are going fast and I can, sometimes, make two at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on the UCAB&#8216;s short front pocket over the weekend. I wanted to incorporate my Clippy Pocket hack into an actual pocket. As I worked on that complicated project, I made donation blocks as leaders and enders. I am really happy with these blocks. They are more fun to make than the white. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/more-new-blue-donation-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More New Blue 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":[486],"tags":[137,512,355],"class_list":["post-48473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bamqg","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\/48473","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=48473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65891,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48473\/revisions\/65891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}