{"id":10033,"date":"2013-06-20T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2013-06-20T11:36:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T15:36:37","slug":"red-panda-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/red-panda-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Panda crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest commissioned design &#8211; <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=244\">Red Panda<\/a> &#8211; is ready at last! I&#8217;d like to thank my commissioners for their patience when unforeseen personal circumstances meant I couldn&#8217;t complete the pattern writing as quickly as I&#8217;d hoped to. I hope you&#8217;ll think the end result was worth the wait&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=244\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/redpanda1.jpg\" alt=\"red panda amigurumi crochet pattern by planetjune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Panda Fun Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Red Pandas live in\u00a0mountainous\u00a0regions of China and the Himalayas.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Like their Giant Panda namesakes, Red Pandas primarily eat bamboo.<\/li>\n<li>Red Pandas are more closely related to Raccoons than to Giant Pandas!<\/li>\n<li>Red Pandas are about the same size as a large domestic cat.<\/li>\n<li>Their thick fur and bushy tails help to protect them from the cold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Real red pandas have at least 6 colours (white, cream, light red, dark red, brown and black) but I&#8217;ve intentionally simplified the colours to use only the bare minimum of three &#8211; the fewest I could get away with! Of course, you can also substitute black and a paler orange\/red for some of the brown and red areas, just as you&#8217;re welcome to modify any of my designs to add extra details or personalise your creations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=244\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/redpanda2.jpg\" alt=\"red panda amigurumi crochet pattern by planetjune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think my design gives you the best of both worlds &#8211; the distinctive look of an adorable red panda without too much colour changing; I&#8217;ve limited the detailed colour changes to 6 rounds that make the all-important face patterning &#8211; it&#8217;s not a red panda without those face colours!<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve finished those, you should be able to fly through the rest of the crocheting and enjoy the clever leg construction and overall shaping. I opted to make my panda nice and chunky to imply the fluffiness without needing to brush him, but of course you can make yours extra-fluffy by brushing the tail, or the entire panda, if you like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=244\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/redpanda3.jpg\" alt=\"red panda amigurumi crochet pattern by planetjune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tip for finding a good shade of red yarn: I spent weeks looking at photos of red pandas in preparation for my design, and I&#8217;ve realised that they come in all different shades from pale to dark, and from very red to orange to almost tan or brown. So don&#8217;t worry about finding a yarn to match the shade I used; you can make a red panda in any natural-looking shade of red, orange, rust, or reddish-brown you can find and it&#8217;ll be recognisable and realistic &#8211; and lovely!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019ll enjoy my latest pattern! Are you ready to get started on your Red Panda? If so, you can pick up the <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=244\">Red Panda amigurumi crochet pattern<\/a> right now from my shop. Or, if you\u2019re not quite ready to buy, why not favourite\/queue it on Ravelry so you don\u2019t forget about it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/badges\/redirect?p=red-panda-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ravelry.com\/badges\/projects?p=red-panda-3&amp;t=.svg\" style=\"border: none;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest commissioned design &#8211; Red Panda &#8211; is ready at last! I&#8217;d like to thank my commissioners for their patience when unforeseen personal circumstances meant I couldn&#8217;t complete the pattern writing as quickly as I&#8217;d hoped to. I hope you&#8217;ll think the end result was worth the wait&#8230; Red Panda Fun Facts Red Pandas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}