{"id":7236,"date":"2010-12-11T08:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:49:21","slug":"stars-for-san-bruno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/stars-for-san-bruno\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars for San Bruno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 10, 2010 a gas line exploded and leveled a neighborhood near where we live. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2010-09-10\/news\/23996646_1_gas-line-explosion-wind-whipped-blaze-smoke-inhalation\" target=\"_blank\">big news<\/a> at the time, but the world has moved on. In that neighborhood lived our cousin. His house was not destroyed, but was severely damaged. Also, the Young Man&#8217;s school friend lived there. His house was destroyed and he and his father ran for their lives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7237\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PICT8232sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7237\" title=\"Barsha's Star\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PICT8232sm-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"Barsha's Star\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PICT8232sm-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PICT8232sm-1024x986.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PICT8232sm.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barsha&#39;s Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/marysartmusings.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">mom<\/a> put out a call for blocks that we can make into quilts for these families and we received our first block today. One is promised and one is in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>Barsha taught sewing in a local county for years before she retired. She is a gifted seamstress and I go to her when I need new pants. \ud83d\ude09 I first met her through a local guild. She is also a gifted quiltmaker, teacher and wearables artist. She has a wonderful, light studio and knows how to use a serger.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Barsha!<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to help? The parameters are:<\/p>\n<p>Block backround: dark blue<br \/>\nBlock design: Yellow star (any pattern)<br \/>\nblock size: 8&#8243; or less (we will work with any size)<br \/>\nremember to sign your block!<\/p>\n<p>Contact us through our blogs for mailing instructions. Thanks so much for your generosity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 10, 2010 a gas line exploded and leveled a neighborhood near where we live. It was big news at the time, but the world has moved on. In that neighborhood lived our cousin. His house was not destroyed, but was severely damaged. Also, the Young Man&#8217;s school friend lived there. His house was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/stars-for-san-bruno\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stars for San Bruno&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[390],"tags":[349,355,316,72,124],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-blocks","tag-doing-good","tag-gifts","tag-group-project","tag-stars-for-san-bruno-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\/7236","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}