{"id":68131,"date":"2025-10-30T07:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=68131"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:50:28","slug":"october-donation-blocks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/october-donation-blocks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"October Donation Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started off the month continuing to make white strip blocks. The bin really was not organized well and I found a whole new selection of strips I could use to make blocks partway through. I was up to a total (not just the ones made in October) of 40 white strip blocks early in the month, but continued to make them. I like my scrap bins to be as empty as possible. The white bin is proving to be a challenge to empty.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-68131 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250928_200945_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250928_200945_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"White strip donation block #85\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68155\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68155'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite strip donation block #85\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250928_200950_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250928_200950_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"White strip donation block #86\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68156\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68156'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite strip donation block #86\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250928_200925_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250928_200925_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"White strip donation block #87\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68157\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68157'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite 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src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250928_200929_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"White strip donation block #89\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68159\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68159'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite strip donation block #89\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20250928_200925_wm-sm-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250928_200925_wm-sm-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"White strip donation block #90\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68160\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68160'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite strip 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src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251011_163839_wm-sm-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"White Strip donation block #103\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68357\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68357'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite Strip donation block #103\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20251011_163834_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251011_163834_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"White Strip donation block #102\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68355\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68355'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite Strip donation block #102\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20251013_190640_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251013_190640_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Green Sidewalk block\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-68327\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-68327'>\n\t\t\t\tGreen Sidewalk block\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started off the month continuing to make white strip blocks. The bin really was not organized well and I found a whole new selection of strips I could use to make blocks partway through. I was up to a total (not just the ones made in October) of 40 white strip blocks early in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/october-donation-blocks-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;October Donation 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":[137,349,355,72],"class_list":["post-68131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68131","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=68131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68374,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68131\/revisions\/68374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}