{"id":20719,"date":"2020-05-26T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=20719"},"modified":"2020-05-26T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T17:01:14","slug":"planetjune-stories-dortes-fishbowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/planetjune-stories-dortes-fishbowl\/","title":{"rendered":"PlanetJune Stories: Dorte’s Fishbowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s PlanetJune Story<\/strong> comes from Dorte Jensen in Denmark, who used a selection of my crochet patterns to create this gorgeous realistic fishbowl!<\/p>\n

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I’ll let Dorte explain how this project came to be:<\/p>\n

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My husband saw your tropical fish patterns and said that they were so cute and that he wanted these fish made for his birthday. I don’t remember when the idea came for me to use a real fishbowl for them.<\/p>\n

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My plan required some plants for the bottom of the bowl. I had seen your succulent collection 1 and 2 and I really wanted to crochet them but had never found the time for them. I realized that I could use those plants for the fishbowl. I also came up with my own idea for a plant that the red fish could hide in.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t have “earth” to sew the plants onto so they would stand up straight. I made a white circle to sew them onto that I could hide beneath the stones in the bottom of the bowl.<\/p>\n

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I suspended the fish using fishing line – I thought that would be most invisible. Then some dots of glue on the edge of the fishbowl to keep the line and the fish in place. I used a line across the fishbowl so the clownfish could hang in the middle of the bowl.<\/p>\n

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Finally I just want to say that both the fish and the plants were so much fun to crochet, and your crochet tutorials have taught me a lot. It is always a great pleasure to follow your great, well-explained and well constructed patterns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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(Back to me, June, again!)<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you so much, Dorte! Isn’t this a fabulous project? Beautifully crocheted, and using the large glass fishbowl with real stones in the bottom was an effective way to add to the realism of this display. <\/p>\n

I think the succulents and her clever plant design look perfect in there too. I was surprised to see how well my succulent patterns stand in for corals and aquatic plants (and yes, in case you’re wondering, I do have some real coral patterns planned for some point in the future too…)<\/p>\n

I hope these beautiful colourful fish have brightened your day (and maybe even inspired you to make a crocheted aquarium of your own?) Please leave Dorte a comment if you’ve enjoyed this post!<\/p>\n

Do you have a PlanetJune Story<\/strong> you’d like to share? I’d love to hear it! Please email your story to june@planetjune.com<\/a>, together with one or more high quality photos showing what you’ve made from PlanetJune patterns. If I choose your story to feature here on the blog, I’ll send you your choice of pattern from my shop to say thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n

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PS – If you’re looking for the PlanetJune patterns featured above, you can find all my Tropical Fish<\/a> and Succulent<\/a> crochet patterns in my shop \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

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Today’s PlanetJune Story comes from Dorte Jensen in Denmark, who used a selection of my crochet patterns to create this gorgeous realistic fishbowl! I’ll let Dorte explain how this project came to be: My husband saw your tropical fish patterns and said that they were so cute and that he wanted these fish made for […]<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetjune-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719","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=20719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}