{"id":17761,"date":"2017-05-05T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=17761"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:32:47","slug":"sculpting-in-crochet-and-other-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/sculpting-in-crochet-and-other-media\/","title":{"rendered":"sculpting in crochet and other media"},"content":{"rendered":"

While taking a photo of my original crocheted alpaca Alpaca together with my new felted alpaca Alpaca<\/a>, it occurred to me that I’ve also made several other ‘pairs’ of crochet\/non-crochet sculptures over the years! <\/p>\n

Here’s my gallery of pairs – can you see the similarities between each pair?
\n(The names are links to my patterns, in case you’d like to make the crocheted version!)<\/em><\/p>\n

Crocheted and needlefelted Alpacas<\/a> (2008 and 2017):<\/p>\n

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…crocheted and needlefelted Guinea Pigs<\/a> (2007 and 2009):<\/p>\n

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…crocheted and hand-sewn Aardvarks<\/a> (2011 and 2013):<\/p>\n

\"hand-sewn<\/p>\n

…crocheted and polymer clay Strawberry Poison Dart Frogs<\/a> (2010 and 2010):<\/p>\n

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…and crocheted and polymer clay Succulents<\/a> (2012 and 2011):<\/p>\n

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I think it’s strange and lovely to see the way my PlanetJune style seems to come through, no matter what medium I work in! I really enjoy sculpting, in any medium. Although the process of crocheting is very different from building up clay, fiber, etc, the placement of stitches to form a 3D shape gives amigurumi the added bonus that the finished pieces are more easily replicable than with other crafts. <\/p>\n

I’m so glad that crochet lends itself to patterns – it’d be much more difficult to explain how to sculpt an animal or plant from clay or fibre without being able to quantify the instructions with specific stitches in specific places. If I hadn’t found amigurumi, I’d still be making nature-inspired sculptures, but I don’t think I’d be able to make my living from them! <\/p>\n

I work far too slowly to be an ‘artist’ and sell my finished pieces, but I feel like my patterns are a way to share my designs in a way that I couldn’t easily do if I switched to a different medium, and I love that my patterns give me a way to help other people to craft their own soft sculptures too! ♥<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While taking a photo of my original crocheted alpaca Alpaca together with my new felted alpaca Alpaca, it occurred to me that I’ve also made several other ‘pairs’ of crochet\/non-crochet sculptures over the years! Here’s my gallery of pairs – can you see the similarities between each pair? (The names are links to my patterns, […]<\/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":[2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-other-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761","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=17761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}