{"id":17485,"date":"2017-01-16T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=17485"},"modified":"2017-03-28T06:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:35:39","slug":"heart-cactus-collection-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/heart-cactus-collection-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Cactus Collection crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first design for the year is the <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=15&#038;products_id=316\">Heart Cactus Collection<\/a>, a sweet addition to my popular Cactus and Succulent Collections, with two new types of heart-shaped cacti in a lovely rounded pot, together with matching 3-dimensional hearts in two sizes. Perfect for your Valentine, or to show someone you care at any time of year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=15&#038;products_id=316\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/heart_cacti.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Cactus Collection crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The heart cacti are scaled so you can mix-and-match them with all the previous <a href=\"\/cacti\">Cactus and Succulent Collection patterns<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/cacti_all10.jpg\" alt=\"10 cactus crochet patterns by PlanetJune (Cactus Collections 1 &#038; 2, Heart Cactus Collection)\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Spot the new additions? (Hint: look for the purple pots&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As well as making individual heart cacti, you can include a heart cactus in your next cactus or succulent garden!<\/li>\n<li>You can also use this new pot with any of the other cacti and succulent plants, or the pots from the other patterns with the heart cacti.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About the Pattern<\/h2>\n<p>This pattern includes <strong>two styles<\/strong> of heart-shaped cactus: one short and wide with flowers, and one tall and multi-segmented. <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to use the included cactus flower and bud instructions to make your own original cacti by choosing the number and position of flowers and buds; adding flowers and\/or buds to the tall cactus, or omitting them from the short cactus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=15&#038;products_id=316\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/heart_cacti2.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Cactus Collection crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox\"><strong>Did You Know? <\/strong>The idea of heart-shaped cacti isn&#8217;t just a fancy &#8211; several types of Opuntia (prickly pear) cactus sometimes develop heart-shaped pads \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<p>As well as the truncated hearts that form the heart cacti, this pattern also includes free bonus instructions to complete the tip of the heart shapes, so you can make <strong>sweet 3-D hearts<\/strong> in two sizes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=15&#038;products_id=316\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/heart_cacti3.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Cactus Collection crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Links to Buy &#038; Launch Discount<\/h2>\n<p>Although I always offer discounts for shopping directly from PlanetJune, to spread the love even further, I&#8217;m offering an <strong>additional 10% discount for this week only<\/strong>. Just enter code <strong>LOVE<\/strong> at checkout by Sunday, 22nd January 2017, and the extra discount will be applied.<\/p>\n<p>Buy the <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=15&#038;products_id=316\">Heart Cactus Collection pattern here<\/a> in my shop. Or, if you&#8217;re not ready to buy just yet, please heart or queue it on Ravelry so you don&#8217;t forget about it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/badges\/redirect?p=heart-cactus-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ravelry.com\/badges\/projects?p=heart-cactus-collection&amp;t=.svg\" style=\"border: none;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re making hearts and\/or heart-shaped cacti from these patterns, please join us for the <strong>Hearts &#038; Flowers crochet-along<\/strong> in the <a href=\"\/ravelry\" target=\"_blank\">PlanetJune Ravelry group<\/a>, between now and Valentine&#8217;s Day, and share photos of what you&#8217;re making &#8211; I&#8217;d love to see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first design for the year is the Heart Cactus Collection, a sweet addition to my popular Cactus and Succulent Collections, with two new types of heart-shaped cacti in a lovely rounded pot, together with matching 3-dimensional hearts in two sizes. Perfect for your Valentine, or to show someone you care at any time of [&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-17485","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\/17485","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=17485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}