{"id":664,"date":"2008-12-15T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/friendship-block\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:18:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:18:45","slug":"friendship-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/friendship-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I mentioned that Camilla, of <a href=\"http:\/\/camillaknits.blogspot.com\/\">CamillaKnits<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/camillaknits.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/unrelated.html\">called for blocks<\/a> for a family who had recently lost their father and husband in a tragic accident. I thought that it wouldn&#8217;t be very difficult to whip out something and send it off.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUVR9INDkxI\/AAAAAAAAC5E\/oBxAd2Zw9vk\/s1600-h\/PICT3414sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUVR9INDkxI\/AAAAAAAAC5E\/oBxAd2Zw9vk\/s320\/PICT3414sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279716248777888530\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My block is above. I wanted to make it cheerful and I think it does come across as cheerful. Camilla&#8217;s rules were 12&#215;12&#8243; finished blocks. Mine isn&#8217;t 12&#215;12&#8243;, so it will probably end up on the back, but that is no problem for me. I am finding that it is almost impossible for me to follow new directions lately, though I did try.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say I would have done well to just get out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Around-Block-Judy-Hopkins-Rotary-Cut\/dp\/1564770796\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229280405&amp;sr=8-5\">Around the Block<\/a> and make a normal block. This one took me about 2 hours rather than the few minutes I thought it would. I don&#8217;t regret the time, because it gave me the opportunity to think about the changes to the lives of family involved. I was also able to contemplate the projects in which I used these cheerful fabrics.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Camilla can use my block and that the family takes some comfort from the quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I mentioned that Camilla, of CamillaKnits, called for blocks for a family who had recently lost their father and husband in a tragic accident. I thought that it wouldn&#8217;t be very difficult to whip out something and send it off. My block is above. I wanted to make it cheerful and I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/friendship-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friendship Block&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[388],"tags":[349,18],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-blocks","tag-friendship-blocks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}