{"id":2520,"date":"2008-06-06T08:13:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T15:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:37:02","slug":"snuggle-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/06\/06\/snuggle-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Snuggle Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 I began knitting for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snugglesproject.org\">Snuggles Project<\/a>. I was working for <a href=\"http:\/\/handsonbayarea.org\/HomePage\/index.php\/home.html\">Hands On Bay Area<\/a>; I wanted to establish a monthly project where creativity was involved and also allow opportunities to socialize and build friendships. It started off well, but when I left the job the project lost momentum. No problem. It&#8217;s something one can do anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The point of the Snuggles Project is to knit or crochet small blankets to donate to animal shelters. I have a lot of machine-washable yarn (it was donated), which is what shelters need. When I want to knit but am really tired (or want to talk with others instead of keeping track of a pattern), I knit something simple like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2550592399\/\" title=\"snuggle blanket 3 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3082\/2550592399_b955c10cd0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"snuggle blanket 3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This Snuggle is 17 x 17 inches and was knit with one skein of Lion Brand Wool-ease Thick n&#8217; Quick on size 13 needles in the American Moss Stitch pattern.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got another one started. You&#8217;ll be seeing posts on this project often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006 I began knitting for the Snuggles Project. I was working for Hands On Bay Area; I wanted to establish a monthly project where creativity was involved and also allow opportunities to socialize and build friendships. It started off well, but when I left the job the project lost momentum. No problem. It&#8217;s something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,214,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-domestic-arts","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11621,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}