{"id":62274,"date":"2024-04-15T07:24:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=62274"},"modified":"2024-04-08T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T23:50:12","slug":"green-donation-quilts-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/green-donation-quilts-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Donation Quilts Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62202\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240328_154515_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62202\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240328_154515_wm-sm-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Green scrap drawer: full\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240328_154515_wm-sm-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240328_154515_wm-sm-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240328_154515_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green scrap drawer: full<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My green scrap drawer has been full for awhile and now that I have made FIVE quilts from my black-grey-brown scrap drawer, it is time to move on. I really can&#8217;t get over how many quilts I made from the black-grey-brown scrap drawer. It is somewhat shocking, especially since I haven&#8217;t finished the grey improv piece or the black improv piece.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-62274 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20240331_201039_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240331_201039_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Green strip block #1\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-62239\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-62239'>\n\t\t\t\tGreen strip block #1\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20240331_200846_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240331_200846_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Green strip block #2\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-62238\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-62238'>\n\t\t\t\tGreen strip block #2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I have already made a couple of green blocks and have several in process. I am also working with smaller scraps to start the improv donation quilts now. It may turn out that I use some combined smaller pieces in the strip\/chunk blocks. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/green-strips-quilted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original green strip donation top<\/a> was one of the first in this series. It is interesting to see how the various quilts, using the same sort of blocks has developed. I think I didn&#8217;t completely empty out the bin when I made that quilt, but I don&#8217;t remember. I am much more diligent about using every scrap now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My green scrap drawer has been full for awhile and now that I have made FIVE quilts from my black-grey-brown scrap drawer, it is time to move on. I really can&#8217;t get over how many quilts I made from the black-grey-brown scrap drawer. It is somewhat shocking, especially since I haven&#8217;t finished the grey improv &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/green-donation-quilts-coming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Donation Quilts Coming&#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":[530],"tags":[137,512,355],"class_list":["post-62274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","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\/62274","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=62274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62276,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62274\/revisions\/62276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}