{"id":69891,"date":"2026-03-05T07:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=69891"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:59:04","slug":"ends-n-23-start-and-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ends-n-23-start-and-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ends n.23 Start and Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69899\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260302_183945_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69899\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260302_183945_wm-sm-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ends n.23 Top\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260302_183945_wm-sm-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260302_183945_wm-sm-768x820.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260302_183945_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 85vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ends n.23 Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wanted to make a second donation top for the year and going through a stack of fabric helped. I found the neutral background and that cemented my resolve.<\/p>\n<p>I used the edges that Colleen cut off of Gelato #2 to start this donation quilt. That back was quite large, so I had long pieces from which to choose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I shoot for about 40&#215;40 for these quilts so a yard of fabric total works. The neutral I found was a half yard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69901\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260304_114622_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69901\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260304_114622_wm-sm-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ends n.23 back\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260304_114622_wm-sm-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260304_114622_wm-sm-768x803.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260304_114622_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 85vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ends n.23 back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Except for the back, I didn&#8217;t need to dig into my bins of fabric. I chose some light oranges for the back, then dutifully measured and put together some batting scraps for the batting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to make a second donation top for the year and going through a stack of fabric helped. I found the neutral background and that cemented my resolve. I used the edges that Colleen cut off of Gelato #2 to start this donation quilt. That back was quite large, so I had long pieces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ends-n-23-start-and-finish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ends n.23 Start and Finish&#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":[558],"tags":[137,128,355,460],"class_list":["post-69891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bamqg","tag-completed-project","tag-doing-good","tag-ends-donation-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69891","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=69891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69904,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69891\/revisions\/69904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}