{"id":70303,"date":"2026-04-05T07:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70303"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T19:30:09","slug":"warm-four-patch-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/warm-four-patch-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm Four Patch Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70290\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260327_194232_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70290\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260327_194232_wm-sm-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Warm Four Patch Fun in progress\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260327_194232_wm-sm-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260327_194232_wm-sm-768x903.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260327_194232_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 85vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warm Four Patch Fun in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Four Patch Fun blocks have been on the small design wall for a long time doing nothing, but annoying me. Annoying me, because I wasn&#8217;t sure what I was going to do with them.<\/p>\n<p>I finally had a brainwave. I decided that I am going to divide my Four Patch Fun blocks into Warm and Cool like I did with the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/finished-warm-windmill-n-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warm Windmill blocks<\/a> (and the cool!). Then I will give them to my friend who is raising her son&#8217;s children. One of the first quilts I made, <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-1996-1999\/star-babies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Babies<\/a>, when I bought my Janome 9000 was the quilt I made for her son.I was able to applique&#8217; when I bought that machine, which was something I really wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a good outcome for these blocks. Everyone needs a quilt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Four Patch Fun blocks have been on the small design wall for a long time doing nothing, but annoying me. Annoying me, because I wasn&#8217;t sure what I was going to do with them. I finally had a brainwave. I decided that I am going to divide my Four Patch Fun blocks into Warm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/warm-four-patch-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Warm Four Patch Fun&#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":[556],"class_list":["post-70303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-four-patch-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70303","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=70303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70306,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70303\/revisions\/70306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}