{"id":217,"date":"2011-01-23T04:19:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/?p=217"},"modified":"2014-09-05T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T04:49:52","slug":"a-fulfilling-way-to-use-the-stash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/2011\/01\/23\/a-fulfilling-way-to-use-the-stash\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fulfilling Way to Use the Stash"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my three and a half decades of stitchery, I have managed to accumulate way too much yarn, and I really need to reduce the stash. A friend of mine has volunteered with a local hospice to supply hand stitched lap blankets, shawls and preemie blanket and hat sets. \u00a0She delivers items quarterly. \u00a0These are the items I donated to her September batch.<\/p>\n

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This began as a baby blanket I wasn’t going to finish, so I finished it as a lap blanket. \u00a0The pattern is Afghan #1 by Rachel J. Terrill in Leisure Arts #2687, Knit One For Baby.<\/p>\n

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This is a lap blanket in the Navajo style my grandmother used for so many afghans.<\/p>\n

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I had begun this to be a rectangular wrap that I was never going to finish, so I finished it as a lap blanket. \u00a0The stitch pattern is Candle Flames from A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker.<\/p>\n

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This preemie blanket and hat set is made in the stitch pattern English Lace from A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker.<\/p>\n

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This was an easy, quick and fun way to use up a couple of skeins of a print yarn. The pattern is Lyn’s Round Ripple Baby Afghan<\/a> which I have used as a lap blanket.<\/p>\n

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This lap blanket is made in the stitch pattern Flemish Block Lace from A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara G. Walker.<\/p>\n

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This lap blanket is made in the stitch pattern Shadow Triangles from the Reader’s Digest The Ultimate Sourcebook of Knitting and Crochet Stitches.<\/p>\n

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The preemie blanket and hat set is based on the stitch pattern Feather Lace from Knitting on the Edge by Nicky Epstein.<\/p>\n

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This is a lap blanket sized version of Stashaholic’s Brain Dead Afghan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my three and a half decades of stitchery, I have managed to accumulate way too much yarn, and I really need to reduce the stash. A friend of mine has volunteered with a local hospice to supply hand stitched lap blankets, shawls and preemie blanket and hat sets. \u00a0She delivers items quarterly. \u00a0These are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.thetucker.com\/knit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}