{"id":67251,"date":"2025-07-23T06:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67251"},"modified":"2025-07-20T20:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:03:48","slug":"handbag-sampler-more-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/handbag-sampler-more-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbag Sampler &#8211; More Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67253\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_124633_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67253\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_124633_wm-sm-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Handbag Sampler - new blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_124633_wm-sm-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_124633_wm-sm-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_124633_wm-sm-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_124633_wm-sm-1200x713.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_124633_wm-sm.jpg 1349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handbag Sampler &#8211; new blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help myself. I said I wouldn&#8217;t, but I really couldn&#8217;t help myself. I made two more blocks for the Handbag Sampler.<\/p>\n<p>I decided that the quilt needed a few more blocks and I took the time on Sunday morning to choose a couple of easy blocks. I chose Sawtooth Star, because it is a favorite. I also chose Fox &amp; Geese, because I thought it would look good with the other blocks. I really had to stretch that blue fabric, because I had barely enough to make the background.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67255\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_141316_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67255\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_141316_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Handbag Sampler - all the blocks\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_141316_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_141316_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_141316_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handbag Sampler &#8211; all the blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The blocks went relatively quickly and I think they look good with the other blocks. I am well on my way to finishing the quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t help myself. I said I wouldn&#8217;t, but I really couldn&#8217;t help myself. I made two more blocks for the Handbag Sampler. I decided that the quilt needed a few more blocks and I took the time on Sunday morning to choose a couple of easy blocks. I chose Sawtooth Star, because it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/handbag-sampler-more-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Handbag Sampler &#8211; More Blocks&#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":[349,467,331],"class_list":["post-67251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-blocks","tag-handbag-sampler","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251","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=67251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67257,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67251\/revisions\/67257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}