{"id":66838,"date":"2025-06-20T07:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66838"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T20:35:24","slug":"blue-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/blue-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Strips"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66840\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250616_220643_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66840\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250616_220643_wm-sm-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Strip blocks\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250616_220643_wm-sm-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250616_220643_wm-sm-768x828.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250616_220643_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 85vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Strip blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished enough of the blue strip blocks to make another <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/sidewalk-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidewalk<\/a> quilt. This will be the third blue strip donation quilt I have made! Apparently, I use a lot of blue. I am really excited to try the Sidewalk pattern with these strip blocks.<\/p>\n<p>This is not all of the strips blocks I need. It is the group I put up on the design wall as I was making them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have made a little dent in my blue scrap drawer. I can probably close it now. I plan to keep making these blocks until I have used most of the strips. I did find that a lot of the scraps are smaller than 4.5 inch strips, so another <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/blue-improv-donation-quilt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blue improv donation quilt<\/a> is in my future, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished enough of the blue strip blocks to make another Sidewalk quilt. This will be the third blue strip donation quilt I have made! Apparently, I use a lot of blue. I am really excited to try the Sidewalk pattern with these strip blocks. This is not all of the strips blocks I need. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/blue-strips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blue Strips&#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":[538],"tags":[137,349,512,355,371],"class_list":["post-66838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-color-strip","tag-doing-good","tag-improv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838","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=66838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66844,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838\/revisions\/66844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}