{"id":61671,"date":"2024-02-11T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=61671"},"modified":"2025-03-08T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:44:31","slug":"brown-strip-donation-quilt-ready-for-quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/brown-strip-donation-quilt-ready-for-quilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Strip Donation Quilt Ready for Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brown strip donation top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wouldn’t exactly say I finished this in record time, but I did work hard to get it done and off my design wall.These quilts aren’t difficult to make. The blocks can take some time, but go together quickly if the strips are available and I use the leaders and enders technique.<\/p>\n

This is the third quilt finished from my black-grey-brown scrap drawer. It never ceases to amaze me how little fabric it takes to make a quilt. This one, including borders and sashing took about 3 yards.<\/p>\n

I showed it to Marty, who loves the nuanced subtlety of brown, at Sew Day the other day and she loved it. She wanted to know if I was a brown convert. No, no I am not<\/strong>, but I am glad I made this quilt and got rid of the brown scraps I had.<\/p>\n

While we were looking at the quilt, I pointed out some of the fabrics I used in really old quilts, like She Had to Have her Latte<\/a>. That is the fun of scrap quilts – seeing old fabrics and remembering a previous project.<\/p>\n

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Brown strip donation quilt back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a large piece of ‘tea dye’ colored fabric that was almost perfect for the back. I had to add on a bit more, but it was nice to get that large piece out of the fabric closet.<\/p>\n

The fabric has postcards on it. I tried to read the messages, but I finally decided they must be fakes as some were impossible to read. That, or they were intentionally blurred.<\/p>\n

Another project and more fabric out of the house.<\/p>\n

I remembered that I used up quite a bit of brown for the Henry Softies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wouldn’t exactly say I finished this in record time, but I did work hard to get it done and off my design wall.These quilts aren’t difficult to make. The blocks can take some time, but go together quickly if the strips are available and I use the leaders and enders technique. This is the … Continue reading “Brown Strip Donation Quilt Ready for Quilting”<\/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":[530],"tags":[137,512,128,355,72,252],"class_list":["post-61671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","tag-completed-project","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61671","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=61671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61886,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61671\/revisions\/61886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}