{"id":1912,"date":"2009-09-03T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2020-10-18T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T22:22:04","slug":"lemming-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/lemming-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"lemming invasion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My lemmings pattern continues to take over the world \ud83d\ude42  Here&#8217;s another commission I just finished, (currently on their way to Italy):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/lemmings_commission2.jpg\" alt=\"crocheted lemmings by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is just too cool not to share: JS left me a <a href=\"\/blog\/lemmings\/comment-page-2\/#comment-77405\">comment<\/a> on my original lemmings post to tell me about a project planned and executed to perfection by the craft club at the Helsinki University of Technology. <a href=\"https:\/\/virkut.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The girls in the club<\/a> spent five months secretly crocheting about <strong>200<\/strong> (yes! two hundred!) lemmings based on my pattern, and then strategically arranged them &#8211; walking, building, climbing, floating, etc &#8211; all around the IT building.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some waiting to be arranged:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/HUTlemmings1.jpg\" alt=\"planetjune lemmings crocheted by HUT students\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/virkut.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/lanka-ja-aika-loppu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">image source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And some action shots:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/HUTlemmings2.jpg\" alt=\"planetjune lemmings crocheted by HUT students\" style=\"padding-bottom:8px;\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/HUTlemmings3.jpg\" alt=\"planetjune lemmings crocheted by HUT students\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/virkut.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/lemmings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">image source<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that the coolest thing ever?! Congratulations to everyone involved in the epic project &#8211; it looks amazing. I&#8217;d love to walk through a building and see tiny lemmings popping up everywhere I looked! <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to make your own lemmings, the basic <a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/mop-top-mascots\/\">Mop Top Mascots<\/a> pattern is free (donationware). If you leave a donation, the PDF version also includes hints for how to adapt the Mop Tops into the various lemmings \ud83d\ude42 Thank you to those who have donated already &#8211; I really appreciate your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lemmings pattern continues to take over the world \ud83d\ude42 Here&#8217;s another commission I just finished, (currently on their way to Italy): And this is just too cool not to share: JS left me a comment on my original lemmings post to tell me about a project planned and executed to perfection by the craft [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","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=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}