{"id":12,"date":"2006-08-01T21:40:49","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2006-08-02T10:46:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T14:46:06","slug":"lip-balm-holsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/lip-balm-holsters\/","title":{"rendered":"lip balm holsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I call this a lip balm holster because with it hanging from your belt you can\u00a0&#8220;quick draw&#8221; the lip balm from the holster\u00a0and have immediate access in those emergency lip balm situations \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/lipbalm1.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I crocheted this first one a while ago with size 20 crochet cotton. I just spiraled around the bottom in single crochet until it was wide enough and then turned the corner and spiraled up the sides. I attached a large lobster claw clasp with a crocheted chain, and voila! It was easy to make, but took a while because of the number of tiny stitches involved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/lipbalm2.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the success of my crocheted bag a couple of weeks ago, I had some thread left over, and thought maybe I could make a matching lip balm holder with the excess. This one was really quick to make and works well if the lip balm has a nice coloured case (this is an Avon orange lip balm so the colour shows through well, although not really in the above\u00a0picture). I crocheted a small split ring to the top of the holster and then\u00a0used a memory wire ring\u00a0as the clip\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s easy to slide it over a belt loop and it&#8217;s much easier to open than a keychain ring.<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"\/blog\/images\/lipbalm3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/lipbalm3.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best part about these holsters is it stops the lip balm from melting in your pocket!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I call this a lip balm holster because with it hanging from your belt you can\u00a0&#8220;quick draw&#8221; the lip balm from the holster\u00a0and have immediate access in those emergency lip balm situations \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0 I crocheted this first one a while ago with size 20 crochet cotton. I just spiraled around the bottom in single [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","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=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}