{"id":6185,"date":"2015-02-22T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2015-02-22T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:33:19","slug":"crochet-christening-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/22\/crochet-christening-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"Crochet: Christening blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I get extremely flattered when someone asks me to make them something specific. My mom’s friend recently commissioned a Christening blanket for her new granddaughter. It’s such an important piece of a family’s history! I felt a little intimidated by the significance this might have, but she calmed me down and set me down a simple path: white and square-ish. That’s IT. <\/p>\n

Naturally, I scoured the web for Christening blanket patterns and inspiration, but I ended up just using my favorite stitch pattern. The offset shell stitch<\/a> has been made into many blankets for babies in my family (check out those posts here<\/a>), so it felt like a good choice. <\/p>\n

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I used Bernat’s Softee Baby and a 5mm (US 8\/H) hook. My beginning chain was 148 and I worked until it was just about a square. I’m not sure how many rows exactly. I made a single crochet border around the whole thing, then searched for a lacy border to add. I found about a bajillion charts of lace edges on Pinterest and ended up here<\/a> where I found the lovely border I ended up choosing. <\/p>\n

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After figuring out the number of stitches in the pattern, I made another round of single crochet to adjust my stitch count. Luckily I wasn’t off by too much! <\/p>\n

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I think it came out lovely. It’s big and squishy and machine washable. It should last a really long time. Who knows, maybe this grandbaby will still have the blanket when she has grandbabies of her own.<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Crochet:<\/center><\/p>\n

I get extremely flattered when someone asks me to make them something specific. My mom’s friend recently commissioned a Christening blanket for her new granddaughter. It’s such an important piece of a family’s history! I felt a little intimidated by the significance this might have, but she calmed me down and set me down a simple path: white and square-ish. That’s IT. <\/p>\n

Naturally, I scoured [Read More…]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[206,228,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6190,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}