{"id":17584,"date":"2017-02-24T06:20:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=17584"},"modified":"2017-02-24T06:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:20:20","slug":"trend-watch-crocheted-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/trend-watch-crocheted-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend Watch: Crocheted Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I designed my African Violet pattern in 2009, I&#8217;ve been steadily building my <a href=\"\/potplants\">collection of crocheted plants in crocheted pots<\/a>. I love how they look realistic, but not in a tacky plastic-faux-plant way &#8211; they&#8217;re obviously handcrafted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/planetjune_potplants.jpg\" alt=\"potted plant crochet patterns by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I give a crocheted plant as a gift, it&#8217;s always really well received. And they&#8217;re so much more convenient than real plants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They&#8217;re always in bloom<\/li>\n<li>They don&#8217;t need sunlight<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t even need to remember to water them!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, word of my crochet pot plants has spread beyond the crochet world and my designs have started a trend in home decorating circles. In the past couple of months Homemaker (UK) and MiCasa (Spain) have included some of my crocheted plant designs in their home dec suggestions:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/planetjune_potplants_homedecmagazines.jpg\" alt=\"potted plant crochet patterns by PlanetJune, featured in MiCasa and Homemaker magazines\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever admired my plant patterns but wondered how well they&#8217;d work for decorating your home or office, giving as a gift, or to sell online or at craft fairs, you no longer have to take my word for it! <\/p>\n<p>The masses have spoken, and crocheted plants are officially <strong>on-trend and in demand<\/strong> &#8211; and that&#8217;s good news for everyone \ud83d\ude42<\/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)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, how about <a href=\"\/potplants\">picking up a plant pattern or two<\/a> and getting in on the trend?! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I designed my African Violet pattern in 2009, I&#8217;ve been steadily building my collection of crocheted plants in crocheted pots. I love how they look realistic, but not in a tacky plastic-faux-plant way &#8211; they&#8217;re obviously handcrafted. Whenever I give a crocheted plant as a gift, it&#8217;s always really well received. And they&#8217;re [&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":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-craft-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584","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=17584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}