{"id":20200,"date":"2019-10-10T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=20200"},"modified":"2019-10-09T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T01:24:18","slug":"giant-crochet-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/giant-crochet-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Crochet Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The (crochet) harvest is good this year!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/giantharvest_june.jpg\" alt=\"giant Amigurumi Apple, Pumpkin and Pear (crochet patterns by PlanetJune)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are just my standard-sized Apple, Pear and Pumpkin patterns, super-sized into giant amigurumi. I love how quickly giant amigurumi work up for their size, and the results are adorably huggable. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/giantharvest_crochet.jpg\" alt=\"giant and regular Amigurumi Apple, Pumpkin and Pear (crochet patterns by PlanetJune)\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Giant fruit with their worsted weight counterparts &#8211; the giants are just a little bit larger!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Giant fruit would make such cute cuddly toys with some eyes and a little smile added, don&#8217;t you think? And I&#8217;m thinking the giant pumpkin would also make the most amazing decor for Halloween &#8211; maybe with a felt Jack o&#8217;Lantern face!<\/p>\n<h2>Crochet your Own Giant Fruit<\/h2>\n<p>Do you want to make some too? (Why wouldn&#8217;t you &#8211; they&#8217;re so much fun!) I can help with that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Learn all my upsizing tips and techniques in my ebook <a href=\"\/giantamigurumi\">The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=37&#038;products_id=345\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/giantami_versions.jpg\" alt=\"The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi ebook by June Gilbank - available in right-handed and left-handed versions\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here are the links to my free crochet patterns for the fruit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/pumpkin\/\">Pumpkin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/amigurumi-apples\/\">Amigurumi Apples<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/free-crochet-patterns\/amigurumi-pears\/\">Amigurumi Pears<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bonus tip for making a Giant Apple:<\/strong> To make the dimpled top and bottom for the giant apple, I found it was easiest to attach the stem <strong>before<\/strong> stuffing and closing the apple. I let the yarn ends dangle from the open bottom of the apple, and stuffed around them. After I finished crocheting the apple, I had the yarn ends in place and ready to pull tight to create the apple&#8217;s shaping. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The (crochet) harvest is good this year! These are just my standard-sized Apple, Pear and Pumpkin patterns, super-sized into giant amigurumi. I love how quickly giant amigurumi work up for their size, and the results are adorably huggable. \ud83d\ude42 Giant fruit with their worsted weight counterparts &#8211; the giants are just a little bit larger! [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20200","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\/20200","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=20200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}