{"id":55971,"date":"2022-05-24T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=55971"},"modified":"2022-05-24T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:02:12","slug":"purple-gold-donation-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/purple-gold-donation-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple &#038; Gold Donation Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55970\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_164908_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55970\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_164908_wm-sm-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"Purple &amp; Gold Donation Top\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_164908_wm-sm-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_164908_wm-sm-768x869.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_164908_wm-sm.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 85vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple &amp; Gold Donation Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I took some time to choose fabric for my Mom&#8217;s piece and was able to finish on Saturday. It is ready to hand in for quilting.<\/p>\n<p>The batik is not an obvious choice, but I think it works. I chose it because of the bits of gold included in the surface. I also didn&#8217;t want an exact match to any of the other fabrics because they would blend into the border.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55972\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_182637_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55972\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_182637_wm-sm-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"Purple &amp; Gold Donation Back\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_182637_wm-sm-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_182637_wm-sm-768x742.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220521_182637_wm-sm.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple &amp; Gold Donation Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That particular batik, and its sister on the back, have been hanging around my fabric closet for a long time. It was time to use them up.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get a lot of fabric usage bang for my work, because the main part of the quilt was Mom&#8217;s fabric and work. Still, every little bit helps and the point is to make something beautiful so someone knows I (or someone) cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took some time to choose fabric for my Mom&#8217;s piece and was able to finish on Saturday. It is ready to hand in for quilting. The batik is not an obvious choice, but I think it works. I chose it because of the bits of gold included in the surface. I also didn&#8217;t want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/purple-gold-donation-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purple &#038; Gold Donation Quilt&#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":[506],"tags":[137,355,330],"class_list":["post-55971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55971","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=55971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55973,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55971\/revisions\/55973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}