{"id":1386,"date":"2009-03-21T07:16:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2009-03-21T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T15:16:20","slug":"eleanors-birthday-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/eleanors-birthday-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor&#8217;s birthday blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>she got it so now I can post photos-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1387\" title=\"321eblanket1\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1388\" title=\"321eblanket2\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1389\" title=\"321eblanket3\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1390\" title=\"321eblanket4\" src=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/321eblanket4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/hey-im-back\/\">similar blanket<\/a> for Julian for Christmas. Eleanor said she wanted one too, so I promised one for her birthday- and here it is- only a month or so late! It is made of cashmere knit samples that a friend gave me. (nice to have friends who work at a cashmere knitwear company!)\u00c2\u00a0 The edge is\u00c2\u00a0 cut-up cashmere sweaters. I put flowers over some little holes, then added more to make it look pretty.<\/p>\n<p>I was inspired to make these blankets by Betz White&#8217;s book- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Warm-Fuzzies-Sweet-Felted-Projects\/dp\/1600610072\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1237648405&amp;sr=8-1\">Warm Fuzzies<\/a>. I highly recommend it for all the technical info on working with recycled woollies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>she got it so now I can post photos- I made a similar blanket for Julian for Christmas. Eleanor said she wanted one too, so I promised one for her birthday- and here it is- only a month or so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/eleanors-birthday-blanket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14],"tags":[130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}