{"id":67148,"date":"2025-07-14T07:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67148"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:17:42","slug":"blast-from-the-past-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/blast-from-the-past-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Handbag Sampler blocks have gone missing. WTH? I know I put them somewhere safe where I could find them. I can&#8217;t find them. &lt;insert head shakes and eye rolls here&gt;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67164\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_134820_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67164\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_134820_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"April Cornell squares\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_134820_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_134820_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250710_134820_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">April Cornell squares<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I found this quilt top or some piecing and an extra charm pack while I was rummaging for the Handbag Sampler. I got it out of the box and will piece the rest of it then hand it in as a donation quilt.<\/p>\n<p>I sort of remember being in a big slump when I <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/another-little-exercise-in-colorpattern-arrangement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was working on this<\/a>. Since it isn&#8217;t finished, I am not sure it ever did anything to get me out of my slump.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few other gems in this box, which I will dig out when I need another donation quilt. I don&#8217;t need to hoard old projects that I am going to do nothing with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Handbag Sampler blocks have gone missing. WTH? I know I put them somewhere safe where I could find them. I can&#8217;t find them. &lt;insert head shakes and eye rolls here&gt; I found this quilt top or some piecing and an extra charm pack while I was rummaging for the Handbag Sampler. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/blast-from-the-past-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blast from the Past&#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":[344],"class_list":["post-67148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-tests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148","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=67148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67165,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67148\/revisions\/67165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}