{"id":17779,"date":"2017-05-11T03:58:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T07:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=17779"},"modified":"2017-05-11T03:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T07:58:59","slug":"capybara-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/capybara-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Capybara crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the <a href=\"\/commissions\">new-and-improved Commissions<\/a> process, I&#8217;ve added a 2-week exclusivity period for all new commissions, so, if you didn&#8217;t pledge towards the capy, you may have been waiting (im)patiently for this announcement: the <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=322\">Capybara crochet pattern<\/a>\u00a0is finally available to purchase!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll definitely be giving early access to all commissioned patterns in future &#8211; it&#8217;s a nice extra reward to those who choose to pledge towards my pattern commissions, and it&#8217;s fun seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/capybara\/people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projects pop up on Ravelry<\/a> before the pattern is even officially available \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=322\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/capybara1.jpg\" alt=\"Capybara crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Capybara Fun Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Capybara is the largest rodent in the world, and can reach up to 150lbs in weight.<\/li>\n<li>Its closest relative is the guinea pig.<\/li>\n<li>Capybara come from South America and their Latin name <em>Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris<\/em> means &#8216;Water Pig&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0are semiaquatic herbivores and live in environments that include both forest and rivers, lakes or swamps.<\/li>\n<li>They have slightly webbed feet, and eat, swim and even sleep partially submerged in water!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=322\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/capybara2.jpg\" alt=\"Capybara crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>About the Pattern<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=322\">Capyabara pattern<\/a> is nice and chunky, at about 8&#8243; (20cm) long. Despite the size, he&#8217;s pretty quick to crochet: he&#8217;s made in a single colour; his head and body are crocheted as one piece, and capys don&#8217;t have tails! He has magical shaping built in, and the perfect snooty Capybara nose.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the pattern includes full instructions and plenty of step-by-step assembly photos so you can make a perfect Capybara of your own!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=322\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/capybara3.jpg\" alt=\"Capybara crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Ready to Crochet?<\/h2>\n<p>If you were one of the Capybara commissioners, I hope you&#8217;ve been enjoying your early access to the pattern over the past few weeks!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting for the capy pattern, you can <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=322\">pick it up from my shop right now<\/a> &#8211; and then join our <em>Sight-C-ing CrochetAlong<\/em> (making anything that starts with the letter &#8216;C&#8217;!) in the <a href=\"\/ravelry\">PlanetJune Ravelry group<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Or, if you\u2019re not ready to buy just yet, please add my Capybara\u00a0to your queue or favourites on Ravelry, so you don\u2019t forget about it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/badges\/redirect?p=capybara\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ravelry.com\/badges\/projects?p=capybara&amp;t=.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy my Capy pattern! It was a fun one to design, especially with that very distinctive body shape \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the new-and-improved Commissions process, I&#8217;ve added a 2-week exclusivity period for all new commissions, so, if you didn&#8217;t pledge towards the capy, you may have been waiting (im)patiently for this announcement: the Capybara crochet pattern\u00a0is finally available to purchase! I&#8217;ll definitely be giving early access to all commissioned patterns in future &#8211; [&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-17779","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\/17779","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=17779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}