{"id":1979,"date":"2009-09-18T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T13:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:34:08","slug":"gecko-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/gecko-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"gecko crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you follow me on Twitter<\/a> or Facebook<\/a>, you’ll have already had a sneak peek at this guy:<\/p>\n

\"crocheted<\/p>\n

He’s a gecko<\/a>, a type of smallish lizard found in warm to tropical climates. Leopard geckos, the type you’ll see most often kept as a pet, have tiny claws on their feet, but most other gecko species have toe pads that let them climb up vertical walls! <\/p>\n

My first introduction to a day gecko was in Hawaii last year, where this little guy was living in our room and spent his time climbing up and down the window frame:<\/p>\n

\"Gecko<\/p>\n

So cute! I’ve had the idea to make a gecko in the back of my mind ever since then. My little Hawaiian buddy was only about 3″ long (a bit small for a crocheted version), but some of the Madagascan species of day gecko reach 9-11″ long. You’re probably familiar with Madagascan geckos from the talking one in those Geico ads<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My crocheted gecko is 10″ long, and, like his cousins, climbs the walls with his special toe pads! Here he is climbing my window:<\/p>\n

\"crocheted
\nI think he’s after my origami decorations!<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n…and climbing back down again<\/em><\/p>\n

(Okay, he needed a little assistance to stay in place on the window, but isn’t the effect perfect?!)<\/p>\n

Gecko<\/a> is only my 2nd reptile design (after my Sea Turtle<\/a>) but he was a lot of fun to make. Maybe I should try some other more unusual animals in future – what do you think?<\/p>\n

The Gecko pattern<\/a> is now available to purchase from the shop!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll have already had a sneak peek at this guy: He’s a gecko, a type of smallish lizard found in warm to tropical climates. Leopard geckos, the type you’ll see most often kept as a pet, have tiny claws on their feet, but most other gecko species […]<\/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-1979","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\/1979","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=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25128,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/25128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}