{"id":48905,"date":"2020-03-14T07:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48905"},"modified":"2020-03-13T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T18:25:47","slug":"traffic-jam-donation-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/traffic-jam-donation-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Jam Donation Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Holloway of <a href=\"https:\/\/mycreativecorner3.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My Creative Corner3<\/a> induced me to try out the Traffic Jam Sew-a-Long with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/711790398869312\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FB group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48906\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48906\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic Pattern block #1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20200312_174507-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic Pattern block #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilovetomakequilts.com\/traffic-jam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Traffic Jam<\/a> is a<a href=\"https:\/\/patsloan.typepad.com\/files\/0-pat-sloan-2019-traffic-jam-pattern.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> free pattern<\/a> by Pat Sloan. I didn&#8217;t need a pattern to make this quilt. I just started sewing my mini-charms together and cut the background fabrics to fit the standard 9 patch layout.<\/p>\n<p>I did seek out the pattern after Vicki mentioned the secondary pattern that appears when the pattern is made with sashing. In the first photo, I didn&#8217;t see the secondary pattern, but in checking out the Linky photos, I did see it. Not sure I will add sashing and cornerstones, but we will see.<\/p>\n<p>I am using that beige-ish fabric as the background as I probably won&#8217;t use it for one of my own quilts. I have no idea why I bought it, but it works pretty well for this piece. I have a yard and will make as many blocks as I can with that much fabric.<\/p>\n<p>I am using mini-charm packs of Marmalade Dreams by Valori Wells. I collected a bunch of them at some point &#8211; at some quilt event. I probably won&#8217;t use them for another project, though I do like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vicki Holloway of My Creative Corner3 induced me to try out the Traffic Jam Sew-a-Long with her FB group. Traffic Jam is a free pattern by Pat Sloan. I didn&#8217;t need a pattern to make this quilt. I just started sewing my mini-charms together and cut the background fabrics to fit the standard 9 patch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/traffic-jam-donation-top\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traffic Jam Donation Top&#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":[137,349,355],"class_list":["post-48905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","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\/48905","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=48905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}