{"id":49876,"date":"2020-06-24T06:53:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=49876"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:40:48","slug":"new-donation-blocks-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-donation-blocks-8\/","title":{"rendered":"New Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49877\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49877\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm-130x300.jpg\" alt=\"New Blue Strip Donation Blocks\" width=\"130\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm-130x300.jpg 130w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm-445x1024.jpg 445w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm-768x1767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm-668x1536.jpg 668w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm-890x2048.jpg 890w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm-1200x2761.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200622_175154_wm.jpg 1697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 85vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Blue Strip Donation Blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I started sewing some strips together and now I have started another donation quilt in the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-strip-chunk-donation-tops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Color Strips &amp; Chunks<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>It started sort of accidentally. I had a few strips left from a box that was stashed behind my old design wall. They were on my sewing table, so I sewed them together when I needed a leader or ender. Then, I opened my blue scrap drawer, which is <strong>not<\/strong> noticeably less full despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/blue-strip-donation-complete\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last blue strip quilt<\/a> I made, and used strips to make more blocks. I am pretty sure I have at least two more quilts in that drawer.<\/p>\n<p>I am out of background fabrics for 16 patches, so this is a good way to use up scraps and have something for leaders and enders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started sewing some strips together and now I have started another donation quilt in the Color Strips &amp; Chunks series. It started sort of accidentally. I had a few strips left from a box that was stashed behind my old design wall. They were on my sewing table, so I sewed them together when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-donation-blocks-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;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_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":[486],"tags":[137,349,512,355],"class_list":["post-49876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","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\/49876","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=49876"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49889,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49876\/revisions\/49889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}