{"id":3369,"date":"2010-01-22T03:04:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2010-02-02T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:10:18","slug":"tote-tuesday-fiberart-for-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"Tote Tuesday &#8211; Fiberart for a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3370\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3370 \" title=\"Have_a_Heart_1st_Week\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Have_a_Heart_1st_Week.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Have_a_Heart_1st_Week.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Have_a_Heart_1st_Week-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peggy Schroder\u2019s Have A Heart tote which I and others donated to.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Fiberart For A Cause<\/em> is the brainchild of quiltmaker\/artist Virginia Spiegel.\u00a0 Its purpose is raising money for the American Cancer Society.\u00a0 For several years she has been active in putting together various fundraising auctions and has thus far raised and donated over\u00a0 $190,00!\u00a0 (In the past I played a very small role by donating a small quilt which raised several hundred dollars.)\u00a0 Now Virginia has created Tote Tuesday as another way to raise funds.<\/p>\n<p>Tote Tuesday features themed totes filled with unique, beautiful, and\u2028inspiring items from the worlds of art quilting, fiber arts, knitting,\u2028 beading, mixed media and surface design.\u2028\u2028\u00a0 The totes are including original artwork, autographed books, hand-dyed\u2028fabrics, gorgeous yarns, beads, handmade journals, fun and useful\u2028materials\/tools for mixed-media and surface design, online classes, DVDs,\u2028 and much, much more.<\/p>\n<p>A list of the more than 20 themed totes now in progress is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaspiegel.com\/blog\/archives\/4265\u2028\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 The bidding opens on February 2nd and continues through March. Check out the list, mark your calendar, and consider bidding on a tote filled with goodies.<\/p>\n<p>100% of the proceeds will be donated directly to the American Cancer Society\u2028.\u00a0 For more information about the fundraiser, click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaspiegel.com\/blog\/archives\/tag\/totetuesday\" target=\"_blank\"> here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiberart For A Cause is the brainchild of quiltmaker\/artist Virginia Spiegel.\u00a0 Its purpose is raising money for the American Cancer Society.\u00a0 For several years she has been active in putting together various fundraising auctions and has thus far raised and donated over\u00a0 $190,00!\u00a0 (In the past I played a very small role by donating a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-artquilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}