{"id":70101,"date":"2026-03-16T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70101"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T01:50:07","slug":"finished-white-strips-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/finished-white-strips-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: White Strips #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69862\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219_144836_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69862\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219_144836_wm-sm-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"White Strips #3 with red\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219_144836_wm-sm-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219_144836_wm-sm-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219_144836_wm-sm-768x1006.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260219_144836_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 85vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Strips #3 with red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I last <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/more-white-strips-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke about this last month<\/a>. In between time, I finished this quilt and posted about it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/february-2026-donation-blocks-and-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February Donation Blocks and Quilts post<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t spoken about it in general as a finished piece.<\/p>\n<p>This piece is a little different from #1 and <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/finished-white-strips-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#2<\/a>, because of the red. I have been feeling like I have a lot of red fabric I am not using. I decided just to put some red sashing on this quilt and see what happened. It is not a favorite of the series, but it isn&#8217;t ugly either. Next time, I&#8217;ll stick with the monochromatic look.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like making these strip quilts, as I have said, as they use up scrap and make great leaders and enders. The problem with the white is that I have A LOT of white scraps and I can&#8217;t seem to use them up quickly enough. I am pleased that I didn&#8217;t use any white background fabric in <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/lupine-top-and-back-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lupine<\/a>. It loaded up my black scrap drawer, but stayed away from the white.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I last spoke about this last month. In between time, I finished this quilt and posted about it on the February Donation Blocks and Quilts post. I haven&#8217;t spoken about it in general as a finished piece. This piece is a little different from #1 and #2, because of the red. I have been feeling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/finished-white-strips-3-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: White Strips #3&#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":[137,512,355,72],"class_list":["post-70101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bamqg","tag-color-strip","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\/70101","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=70101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70106,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70101\/revisions\/70106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}