{"id":2002,"date":"2009-09-23T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T14:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T17:52:37","slug":"craft-crochet-along-panda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/craft-crochet-along-panda\/","title":{"rendered":"craft crochet along panda"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to join the CRAFT Crochet-Along<\/a> to make a Fuzzy Panda Amigurumi this month. I thought it would be interesting to put the results of my brushed crochet experiment<\/a> into action, plus I could connect with more crocheters, and maybe it would be be relaxing to make someone else’s pattern for a change!<\/p>\n

\"CRAFT<\/a><\/p>\n

Me being me, I couldn’t resist tweaking the pattern in a couple of places. Here are my changes, in case you’d like to make a panda like mine:<\/p>\n

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  1. I’m sensitive to wool, so I used acrylic yarns: Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice for the white and Red Heart Soft for the black<\/li>\n
  2. I spaced out the increase and decrease rounds on the head to make it a more rounded and less boxy shape<\/li>\n
  3. I added a few extra rounds on the body and limbs to make them longer<\/li>\n
  4. I used solid black animal eyes with a white felt ring behind to make the eyes stand out from the black eye patches and give him that slightly worried expression<\/li>\n
  5. I changed the position of the eyes, the shape of the nose, and skipped the mouth altogether<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And here’s my result:<\/p>\n

    \"Crochet-Along
    \nClick through for larger pic at Flickr<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

    It was a fun diversion to make the panda, and I think it definitively proves that you can<\/strong> brush acrylic yarn, so don’t be scared to try it for yourself \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

    The Crochet Along<\/a> is still going if you’d like to join up and make your own panda! You can check out the pandas everyone’s been making in their Flickr pool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I decided to join the CRAFT Crochet-Along to make a Fuzzy Panda Amigurumi this month. I thought it would be interesting to put the results of my brushed crochet experiment into action, plus I could connect with more crocheters, and maybe it would be be relaxing to make someone else’s pattern for a change! Me […]<\/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-2002","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\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}