{"id":50209,"date":"2020-08-03T07:21:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=50209"},"modified":"2022-04-03T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T18:29:26","slug":"blue-strips-2-donation-top-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/blue-strips-2-donation-top-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Strips #2 Donation Top Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some concentrated time on this donation top and back and was able to finish it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50211\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50211\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Strips #2 Donation top\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm-940x1024.jpg 940w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm-768x837.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm-1410x1536.jpg 1410w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm-1879x2048.jpg 1879w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200725_141755_wm-1200x1308.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 85vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Strips #2 Donation top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did something a little different with the borders. Since I had an extra sashing strip, I added it to the left side after accidentally sewing one to the right side. Then I added another border all the way around using a different fabric. There is no first border on the stop and bottom. I think the piece looks ok like that.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that this top looks more like a column quilt or Chinese Coins quilt than the other <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-strip-chunk-donation-tops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Color Strip quilts<\/a> I have made. I think the sea green I used for the sashing didn&#8217;t have enough contrast. However, I kind of like the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some concentrated time on this donation top and back and was able to finish it. I did something a little different with the borders. Since I had an extra sashing strip, I added it to the left side after accidentally sewing one to the right side. Then I added another border all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/blue-strips-2-donation-top-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blue Strips #2 Donation Top Finished&#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":[137,512,355,371],"class_list":["post-50209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","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\/50209","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=50209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50213,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50209\/revisions\/50213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}