{"id":50807,"date":"2020-09-29T07:05:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=50807"},"modified":"2020-09-24T18:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T01:31:32","slug":"traffic-jam-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/traffic-jam-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Jam Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50796\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50796\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic Jam 2- Block #2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200923_210610_wm-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic Jam 2- Block #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am feeling guilty about the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/blue-improv-donation-top-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blue Improv Donation quilt<\/a>, but somehow I can&#8217;t seem to get back to it. My reasoning for working on the Traffic Jam blocks is that I need to get rid of the 2.5&#8243; squares that are preventing me from closing my bin of donation squares.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll get back to the improv quilt eventually. In the meantime, I am using up squares from various Bonnie and Camille lines, mostly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50814\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50814\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic Jam 2- Block #3\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20200922_181318_wm-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic Jam 2- Block #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have been making 4 patches and all of a sudden I am able to put several blocks together. I am going to make at least 9 of these blocks, but perhaps 16, to make a donation quilt. It depends on how many squares I have. I am already running out of red, so I may need to augment that stash a bit. My foot is healing so I may be able to climb upin my fabric closet again. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling guilty about the Blue Improv Donation quilt, but somehow I can&#8217;t seem to get back to it. My reasoning for working on the Traffic Jam blocks is that I need to get rid of the 2.5&#8243; squares that are preventing me from closing my bin of donation squares. I&#8217;ll get back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/traffic-jam-continues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traffic Jam Continues&#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":[137,355,72],"class_list":["post-50807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50807","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=50807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50816,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50807\/revisions\/50816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}