{"id":72583,"date":"2026-10-07T07:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72583"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:38:36","slug":"new-bam-bom-friendship-star-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-bam-bom-friendship-star-wreath\/","title":{"rendered":"New BAM BOM Friendship Star Wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/bam-bom-friendship-star-wreath\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A few months ago<\/a>, I made the first version of this block, which I really like. This is a block that I explored in <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-etc-2019\/flying-around\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flying Around<\/a>. When I made the first one I knew it wasn&#8217;t right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72582\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260923_171349_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72582\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260923_171349_wm-sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Friendship Star Wreath #2 - BAM BOM\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260923_171349_wm-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260923_171349_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260923_171349_wm-sm-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20260923_171349_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friendship Star Wreath #2 &#8211; BAM BOM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Later, I got some more of the grey Pearl Bracelets fabric. Recently, with the end of the project nearing, I remade the block so that it fits in better with the rest of the blocks. I like it much better.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t as much contrast between the star fabrics and the background. Perhaps that will make people move in closer and look more carefully at the quilt.<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to think about how I will put the quilt together. We have a layout party scheduled for the November Sew Day. I don&#8217;t know if I want to have mine put together or if I will work along with the others. I think I will need it put together to show that it can be done. I also think I won&#8217;t have time to work on my own project while everyone else needs assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I made the first version of this block, which I really like. This is a block that I explored in Flying Around. When I made the first one I knew it wasn&#8217;t right.&nbsp; Later, I got some more of the grey Pearl Bracelets fabric. Recently, with the end of the project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-bam-bom-friendship-star-wreath\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New BAM BOM Friendship Star Wreath&#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":[137,349,72,22,252],"class_list":["post-72583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bamqg","tag-blocks","tag-group-project","tag-hand-piecing","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\/72583","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=72583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72585,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72583\/revisions\/72585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}