{"id":51138,"date":"2020-11-06T07:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=51138"},"modified":"2025-03-08T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:36:13","slug":"new-donation-blocks-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-donation-blocks-9\/","title":{"rendered":"New Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51126\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201101_143134_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51126\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201101_143134_wm-sm-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"9 donation blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201101_143134_wm-sm-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201101_143134_wm-sm-768x750.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201101_143134_wm-sm.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">9 donation blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I began <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/foty-2019-beginning-of-sewing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sewing FOTY 2019<\/a>, I used some 2.5 inch squares as leaders and enders.<\/p>\n<p>I realized as I was making them, that there is no rhyme or reason to the color scheme. I don&#8217;t have enough of one color to really do anything with the blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is also that making blocks when people can&#8217;t get a set at the meeting doesn&#8217;t help Peggy with Community Giving.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at them now, I could make another <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/16-patch-plus-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">16 Patch Plus quilt top<\/a> like I made for Peggy last weekend. I could use the black blocks for the outer legs of the Plus and a red one for the center block. The 16 Patch Plus tops turn out so small, though, and I really prefer making larger quilts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I began sewing FOTY 2019, I used some 2.5 inch squares as leaders and enders. I realized as I was making them, that there is no rhyme or reason to the color scheme. I don&#8217;t have enough of one color to really do anything with the blocks. The problem is also that making blocks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/new-donation-blocks-9\/\" 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_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":[546,137,349,355],"class_list":["post-51138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-16-patch","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\/51138","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=51138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51140,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51138\/revisions\/51140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}