{"id":1773,"date":"2013-08-29T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2013-08-29T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T03:17:51","slug":"what-ive-been-doing-charity-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Been Doing &#8211; Charity Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/wpid-IMG_2340-2013-08-29-18-10.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2340-2013-08-29-18-10.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"518\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I volunteered my local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anchoragemodernquiltguild.blogspot.com\">modern quilt guild<\/a> to help an <a href=\"http:\/\/ninestar.com\">agency<\/a> complete some quilts. We were given 120 blocks hand-painted by children.  The blocks were not uniform in size and the painting was a bit thick in places.  Luckily the kids had been given fabric paints donated by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltedravenalaska.com\">local quilt shop<\/a>.  I separated the blocks into 10 piles and several members from the guild created tops from the blocks.  I then quilted them to fleece (no batting).  This made it possible to avoid stitching through the paint if it was a bit \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccrunchy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.  I bound them and tossed them in the wash with color catchers.  The painted blocks became so soft. The colors ran in a few places but the final result is 10 quilts plus an extra blanket made from the fleece scraps.  To add to the cuteness, I stitched a label to the back of each that had the logo of the agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I volunteered my local modern quilt guild to help an agency complete some quilts. We were given 120 blocks hand-painted by children. The blocks were not uniform in size and the painting was a bit thick in places. Luckily the kids had been given fabric paints donated by a local quilt shop. I separated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}