{"id":70193,"date":"2026-03-25T07:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70193"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:22:32","slug":"lucky-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/lucky-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70194\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_161922_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70194\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_161922_wm-sm-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lucky Block #1\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_161922_wm-sm-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_161922_wm-sm-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260322_161922_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucky Block #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pacifica Quilter&#8217;s Club also has a donation block program called &#8220;Lucky blocks&#8221;. I missed the first round, but picked up the instructions at the last meeting. I have slowly been starting these blocks and over the weekend made some good progress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have to trim all the HSTs, so the work takes longer PLUS I am working on about 12 projects at a time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70195\" style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260320_182559_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70195\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260320_182559_wm-sm-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lucky Blocks waiting to assemble\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260320_182559_wm-sm-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260320_182559_wm-sm-768x792.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260320_182559_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 85vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucky Blocks waiting to assemble<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I accidentally cut 4 blocks. Either I didn&#8217;t read the instructions carefully or I skipped reading them. I made a bunch of HSTs and there were enough for 4 blocks. I&#8217;ll sew them together in time for the April meeting. If I can&#8217;t make it, I&#8217;ll drop them off with the coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to use some 5&#8243; squares I had cut from scraps for this project, which made me very happy. That scrap&nbsp; processing effort isn&#8217;t wasted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacifica Quilter&#8217;s Club also has a donation block program called &#8220;Lucky blocks&#8221;. I missed the first round, but picked up the instructions at the last meeting. I have slowly been starting these blocks and over the weekend made some good progress.&nbsp; I have to trim all the HSTs, so the work takes longer PLUS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/lucky-blocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lucky 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":[349,355,160],"class_list":["post-70193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-blocks","tag-doing-good","tag-guilds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193","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=70193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70196,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193\/revisions\/70196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}