{"id":70096,"date":"2026-03-15T06:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70096"},"modified":"2026-03-13T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:24:07","slug":"sew-day-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/sew-day-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sew Day Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70043\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_140845_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70043\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_140845_wm-sm-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"Sew Day quilt in process\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_140845_wm-sm-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_140845_wm-sm-1024x545.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_140845_wm-sm-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_140845_wm-sm-1200x639.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_140845_wm-sm.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sew Day quilt in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A week ago was the Community Sew Day at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayareamodernquilting.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guild<\/a>. After doing some pre-sewing, I also sewed another quilt using the same pattern at Sew Day. SueG sat next to me and followed my lead on sewing blocks my way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sue used her own materials, which was a lot better for precision. We sewed quite a few blocks, but Lee Ann took them all to sew together before I could take a picture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to keep the packs I chose in the same color family as Sue&#8217;s blocks, but I was really distracted and am not sure I succeeded. when I get a photo from Lee Ann, I&#8217;ll share it.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-70096 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\/20260307_132433_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_132433_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Diagonal 16 Patch block\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70042\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70042'>\n\t\t\t\tDiagonal 16 Patch block\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\/20260307_132429_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_132429_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Diagonal 16 Patch block\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70040\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70040'>\n\t\t\t\tDiagonal 16 Patch block\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\/20260307_115441_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_115441_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Diagonal 16 Patch block\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_115441_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_115441_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_115441_wm-sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260307_115441_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70039'>\n\t\t\t\tDiagonal 16 Patch block\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\/20260306_192256_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260306_192256_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Diagonal 16 Patch block\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-70038\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-70038'>\n\t\t\t\tDiagonal 16 Patch block\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago was the Community Sew Day at the Guild. After doing some pre-sewing, I also sewed another quilt using the same pattern at Sew Day. SueG sat next to me and followed my lead on sewing blocks my way.&nbsp; Sue used her own materials, which was a lot better for precision. We sewed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/sew-day-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sew Day 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":[558],"tags":[137,349,355,72],"class_list":["post-70096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","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\/70096","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=70096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70098,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70096\/revisions\/70098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}