{"id":3078,"date":"2010-05-29T14:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?page_id=3078"},"modified":"2013-04-29T03:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T07:40:50","slug":"crocheted-orangutan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/about\/crocheted-orangutan\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocheted Orangutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of questions about my orangutan (mostly of the &#8220;I love that orange monkey on your homepage &#8211; where can I get the pattern?&#8221; nature), so I thought I&#8217;d put this page together, with links to everything you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know about my orang (who, incidentally, is an ape, not a monkey!) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/orangutan_montage.jpg\" alt=\"crocheted orangutan (montage) by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First up, let me say: this is a one-of-a-kind, freeform art project. <strong>There is no pattern<\/strong>, and there never will be a pattern &#8211; I&#8217;m sorry. You can&#8217;t pattern art!<\/p>\n<p>My crocheted orangutan was a long-term project: for years, I wanted to make a life-size, realistic baby orang. The idea began to become reality when I found the perfect yarn way back in <a href=\"\/blog\/life-and-yarn\/\">August 2007.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/tecnohair.jpg\" alt=\"yarn for orangutan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started working on the arms at the Creativ Festival in Toronto (Spring 2008)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/creativ.jpg\" alt=\"creativ spring 2008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then I <a href=\"\/blog\/creativity-cant-be-forced\/\">had artist&#8217;s block<\/a> and couldn&#8217;t get the head right for a long time. But I perservered and finally <a href=\"\/blog\/crocheted-baby-orang-utan\/\">completed the orang of my dreams<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I blogged about <a href=\"\/blog\/orang-behind-the-scenes\/\">some of the process and details<\/a> that went into making him &#8211; there was a lot to it.<\/p>\n<p>When I brought him to the following year&#8217;s Creativ Festival in Toronto (Spring 2009) he got a lot of attention!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/creativ_spr09.jpg\" alt=\"planetjune at the spring 09 creativ festival\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now he sits happily in my craft room, with a delicious crocheted banana to snack on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/orang_banana.jpg\" alt=\"orang and banana by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My orangutan was a winner in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/contest\/critter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2010 Instructables\/Lion Brand Critter Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of questions about my orangutan (mostly of the &#8220;I love that orange monkey on your homepage &#8211; where can I get the pattern?&#8221; nature), so I thought I&#8217;d put this page together, with links to everything you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know about my orang (who, incidentally, is an ape, not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3078","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3078\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}