{"id":62949,"date":"2024-06-26T06:54:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=62949"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T02:07:28","slug":"new-green-strip-donation-top-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-green-strip-donation-top-start\/","title":{"rendered":"New Green Strip Donation Top Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62947\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240620_183803_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62947\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240620_183803_wm-sm-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"Green Strip donation top #2\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240620_183803_wm-sm-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240620_183803_wm-sm-768x821.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240620_183803_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 85vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Strip donation top #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now that the Green &amp; Grey Diagonal 9 Patch is ready for quilting, I started another donation top. This time I am using the green blocks I have been making.<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to use the thin strips between the blocks again, but I haven&#8217;t sewn them yet, so we will see.<\/p>\n<p>I also did some math and think 4 x 6 blocks will make a good sized quilt. The rough size will be 35 x38 inches without a border. I don&#8217;t want to make another skinny quilt like the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/finished-black-strip-2-donation-quilt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black&nbsp; Strip #2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44850\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-1547687824040894922746550583277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44850\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-1547687824040894922746550583277-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Green Strips donation top\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-1547687824040894922746550583277-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-1547687824040894922746550583277-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-1547687824040894922746550583277-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-1547687824040894922746550583277-1200x942.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Strips donation top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is #2 of all time. The <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-1547687824040894922746550583277.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first quilt in this series was made with green<\/a>. I don&#8217;t use much green so that really strikes me as weird. It is interesting to see the differences. I didn&#8217;t sew smaller pieces into larger to make the strips long enough like I do now. Back in the day, I just used strips that were the right length. Perhaps that is why my scrap drawer got so full so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much green in my blog lately!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Green &amp; Grey Diagonal 9 Patch is ready for quilting, I started another donation top. This time I am using the green blocks I have been making. I am planning to use the thin strips between the blocks again, but I haven&#8217;t sewn them yet, so we will see. I also did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/new-green-strip-donation-top-start\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Green Strip Donation Top Start&#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":[137,512,355,72],"class_list":["post-62949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","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\/62949","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=62949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62952,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949\/revisions\/62952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}