{"id":50456,"date":"2020-08-22T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=50456"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:39:08","slug":"blue-improv-donation-top-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/blue-improv-donation-top-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Improv Donation Top Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50475\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200820_094357_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50475\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200820_094357_wm-sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Improv Donation Top start\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200820_094357_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200820_094357_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200820_094357_wm-sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/20200820_094357_wm-sm.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Improv Donation Top start<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After making the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/blue-improv-journal-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent journal cover<\/a>, I continued piecing together my blue scraps. One good thing is that I am also unearthing more strips, so there may be another Blue Strip donation top in my future.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet made a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-improv-donation-top-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blue improv donation top<\/a>, so I decided to just go forward with that project rather than making another journal cover. I am sure I will have plenty of scraps to make another one when I am finished!<\/p>\n<p>I am finding scraps from older projects, which is interesting. It is fun to contemplate what I was thinking when I bought and used those scraps. Some are a lot darker than the fabrics I buy now.<\/p>\n<p>I am also finding (this drawer is STUFFED!!!, though getting better) some pieces that have already been pieced together, so those are also useful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After making the most recent journal cover, I continued piecing together my blue scraps. One good thing is that I am also unearthing more strips, so there may be another Blue Strip donation top in my future. I haven&#8217;t yet made a blue improv donation top, so I decided to just go forward with that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/blue-improv-donation-top-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blue Improv Donation Top Start&#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":[137,537,355,331],"class_list":["post-50456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bamqg","tag-color-improv-series","tag-doing-good","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50456","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=50456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50476,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50456\/revisions\/50476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}