{"id":18114,"date":"2017-09-18T17:44:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T21:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:21:50","slug":"farmyard-goats-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/farmyard-goats-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmyard Goats crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here! My final commissioned pattern, <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=14&#038;products_id=326\">Farmyard Goats<\/a>, is now available to purchase! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=14&#038;products_id=326\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/farmyardgoats1.jpg\" alt=\"Farmyard Goats amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \ndata-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/planetjune_farmyardgoats_crochet.jpg\"\ndata-pin-description=\"Mix-and-match Farmyard Goats pattern amigurumi crochet pattern. Choose ears, horns, beard and colours to make a variety of cute and realistic goats.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farmyard Goats is a mix-and-match pattern that lets you choose the options you want, to make many different types of goat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ears<\/strong> &#8211; floppy, upright, or none?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Horns<\/strong> &#8211; long and curved, shorter, tiny nubs, or none?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beard<\/strong>, or no beard?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contrast-coloured<\/strong> horns and hooves, or not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=14&#038;products_id=326\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/farmyardgoats2.jpg\" alt=\"Farmyard Goats amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You choose! Make any of my three pictured options in any colour(s), or assemble your own custom goat from all the included options &#8211; it&#8217;s up to you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox\"><strong>Fun Fact:<\/strong> It can sometimes be tricky to tell a sheep from a goat, especially as some breeds of sheep are smooth-coated, and some goats are fluffy. Here&#8217;s the trick: if the tail points up, it&#8217;s a goat! Sheep tails always point downwards.<\/div>\n<h2>Meet the Goats<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=14&#038;products_id=326\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/farmyardgoats_billy.jpg\" alt=\"Farmyard Goats amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My billy goat has <strong>upright<\/strong> ears, <strong>long<\/strong> horns, and a <strong>beard<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>I invented a fun new technique to make the curved horns &#8211; it&#8217;s almost magical how it works, and yet it&#8217;s super-simple to achieve! I think you&#8217;ll enjoy it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>To me, this is the definitive goat, but I know that&#8217;s not the case for many people, so I decided to include other options in the pattern, so you can make lots of different goats&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=14&#038;products_id=326\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/farmyardgoats_kid.jpg\" alt=\"Farmyard Goats amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My little kid goat\u00a0has <strong>upright<\/strong> ears, <strong>short<\/strong> horn nubs, and no beard. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a bit smaller than the other goats because, although I used the same pattern and hook size, I used mohair [goat!]\u00a0blend\u00a0yarn that was slightly finer than the worsted weight yarn recommended for the pattern, and 9mm eyes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=14&#038;products_id=326\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/farmyardgoats_nubian.jpg\" alt=\"Farmyard Goats amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Nubian goat has <strong>floppy<\/strong> ears, no horns, and no beard.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course, you can make a Nubian with any length horns and\/or a beard, just by mixing and matching the pattern elements &#8211; this is a very versatile pattern \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>Ready to Crochet?<\/h2>\n<p>If you were one of the commissioners of this pattern, or had early access through the crochet-along, I hope you&#8217;ve been enjoying the pattern over the past few weeks!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been waiting for the goat pattern, you can <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=14&#038;products_id=326\">pick it up from my shop right now<\/a> &#8211; and then join our <em>Farmyard CAL<\/em> 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 Farmyard Goats\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=farmyard-goats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ravelry.com\/badges\/projects?p=farmyard-goats&amp;t=.svg\" style=\"border: none;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy my Farmyard Goats pattern! Which type of goat is your favourite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s here! My final commissioned pattern, Farmyard Goats, is now available to purchase! Farmyard Goats is a mix-and-match pattern that lets you choose the options you want, to make many different types of goat: Ears &#8211; floppy, upright, or none? Horns &#8211; long and curved, shorter, tiny nubs, or none? Beard, or no beard? Contrast-coloured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18114","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\/18114","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=18114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}