{"id":63725,"date":"2024-08-21T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=63725"},"modified":"2025-03-08T13:42:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T21:42:28","slug":"green-strip-top-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/green-strip-top-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Strip Donation Top #3 Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63720\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63720\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215525_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63720\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215525_wm-sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Green Strip donation top #2 in progress (v.1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215525_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215525_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215525_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Strip donation top #2 in progress (v.1)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have been fiddling with this quilt for awhile, ever since <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/more-green-strips-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I finished #2<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/whats-on-the-design-wall-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My design walls are full<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/grey-improv-donation-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grey improv<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/black-improv-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black improv<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/pantone-going-somewhere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pantone Project<\/a>. I basically had no space in which to put it up and look at it.<\/p>\n<p>Design floor to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to lay it out and see what needed to be done. I finally laid it out and inventoried the different blocks that I had available.<\/p>\n<p>I am farther along than I thought.<\/p>\n<p>The image above shows my first layout with what blocks I had. As you can see, I have been adding sashing to certain blocks even though I have not seen them up on the design wall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63719\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215833_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63719\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215833_wm-sm-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Green Strip donation top #2 in progress (v.2)\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215833_wm-sm-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215833_wm-sm-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240817_215833_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Strip donation top #2 in progress (v.2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had enough blocks to add another row, so I did that to see how it looks. I know it is going to be a weird shape again, but I decided that using up the blocks was more important than my worries about shape. If I were really worried about shape, I would make square blocks.<\/p>\n<p>I have sashing cut, so I prepared sashing and cornerstone strips for the last blocks and see how far I can get in the next little while. I really feel like I need to get this quilt off to the Community Quilt ladies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been fiddling with this quilt for awhile, ever since I finished #2. My design walls are full of the grey improv, the black improv and the Pantone Project. I basically had no space in which to put it up and look at it. Design floor to the rescue. I finally decided to lay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/green-strip-top-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Strip Donation Top #3 Progress&#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":[137,512,355,72,331,252],"class_list":["post-63725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project","tag-piecing","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\/63725","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=63725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63767,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63725\/revisions\/63767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}