{"id":17820,"date":"2017-05-09T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2017-05-09T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:00:42","slug":"amigurumi-finishing-technique-needlesculpting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/amigurumi-finishing-technique-needlesculpting\/","title":{"rendered":"Amigurumi Finishing Technique: Needlesculpting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needlesculpting is a finishing technique you can use to improve the shape of your amigurumi. It uses a yarn needle and length of matching yarn to draw in certain areas of an amigurumi to alter its shape, as with this bulky-necked panda:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/needlesculpting.jpg\" alt=\"needlesculpting in amigurumi - tutorial\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re following a pattern with crocheted shaping built in, you shouldn&#8217;t need to do this, but it can be a useful tool to have in your arsenal, if you want to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fix &#8216;lost&#8217; shaping:<\/strong>\u00a0If you&#8217;ve crocheted too loosely or been over-generous with your stuffing, and the built-in shaping has been lost.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Add extra definition:<\/strong> Exaggerate the shape of your amigurumi.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make easy modifications:<\/strong>\u00a0Alter the shape of a pattern without modifying the stitches you crochet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/tutorials\/needlesculpting\/\">Continue to my tutorial and I&#8217;ll show you how to add needlesculpted details to your amigurumi! &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needlesculpting is a finishing technique you can use to improve the shape of your amigurumi. It uses a yarn needle and length of matching yarn to draw in certain areas of an amigurumi to alter its shape, as with this bulky-necked panda: If you&#8217;re following a pattern with crocheted shaping built in, you shouldn&#8217;t need [&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":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820","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=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}