{"id":2292,"date":"2010-10-02T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2010-10-02T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T18:44:13","slug":"volunteers-create-success-of-warm-up-america-project-at-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2010\/10\/02\/volunteers-create-success-of-warm-up-america-project-at-the-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers stitch success of &#039;Warm Up America&#039; project at the Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/WUAliberty150x215.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2293\" title=\"WUAliberty150x215\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/WUAliberty150x215.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a>Knitting and crocheting fans donated more than 1,000 blocks to this year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftyarncouncil.com\/warmup.html\">\u201cWarm Up America\u201d <\/a>project at the Fair. For more than a decade, thousands of 7\u201dx 9\u201d knitted or crocheted blocks have been collected by Fair volunteers to assemble into beautiful afghans and distributed to homeless shelters all over Los Angeles and Orange County.<br \/>\nSixteen blocks were assembled into each individual afghan, to create more than 60 blankets. Volunteers, including the three pictured here \u2013 Yolanda Mahler of Los Angeles, Edda Broderick of Claremont and Janice Ogata of La Crescenta \u2013 who worked in the Knitting Lounge located in Tapestry on the project.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2294\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2294\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2294\" title=\"IMG_1087\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_1087-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Mahler of Los Angeles, Edda Broderick of Claremont and Janice Ogata of La Crescenta volunteered for the &quot;Warm Up America&quot; project at the Fair.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nVolunteers also taught crocheting and knitting to Fairguests who stopped by the Lounge \u2013 an inviting, homey, living room of creativity. In fact, said Broderick, not only afghans have been \u201cbuilt\u201d at the Fair, but so do friendships that continue year-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knitting and crocheting fans donated more than 1,000 blocks to this year\u2019s \u201cWarm Up America\u201d project at the Fair. For more than a decade, thousands of 7\u201dx 9\u201d knitted or crocheted blocks have been collected by Fair volunteers to assemble into beautiful afghans and distributed to homeless shelters all over Los Angeles and Orange County.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,14,20],"tags":[1109,1220],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-benefit","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","category-the-village-on-broadway","tag-tapestry","tag-warm-up-america"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}