{"id":72131,"date":"2026-09-01T07:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72131"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:02:51","slug":"starting-sidewalk-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/starting-sidewalk-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Sidewalk #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of TMI, I had some dental work done yesterday and spent some time clearing out my email inbox, but otherwise laid on the couch and was a potato. I did get some stuff done over the weekend, which made me happy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72136\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_091927_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72136\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_091927_wm-sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"White Color Strip \/ sidewalk blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_091927_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_091927_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_091927_wm-sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_091927_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Color Strip \/ sidewalk blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I got some fabric as a gift a week or so ago and decided it would work really well for my next White Strip donation top.<\/p>\n<p>The White strip blocks had been laying around not inspiring me. With the new fabric in hand, I cut it up at SueS&#8217; Sew Day. With that done, I was able to sew large and small squares to the strip blocks to come up with these larger blocks on Saturday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72139\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_100539_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72139\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_100539_wm-sm-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sidewalk #7: White Strips in process\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_100539_wm-sm-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_100539_wm-sm-768x806.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_100539_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 85vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidewalk #7: White Strips in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most of the blocks have been sewn so I need to start chunking. I was able to use almost all of the gift fabric, which is great.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a very different look for the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-strip-chunk-donation-tops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white strip tops<\/a> I have made in the past. This top will also straddle two series of quilts, <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-strip-chunk-donation-tops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Color Strip<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/all-the-2025-sidewalk-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidewalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the category of TMI, I had some dental work done yesterday and spent some time clearing out my email inbox, but otherwise laid on the couch and was a potato. I did get some stuff done over the weekend, which made me happy. I got some fabric as a gift a week or so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/starting-sidewalk-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting Sidewalk #7&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[558],"tags":[137,355,72,252],"class_list":["post-72131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bamqg","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72131","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=72131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72159,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72131\/revisions\/72159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}