{"id":20825,"date":"2020-09-18T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=20825"},"modified":"2020-09-18T11:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:30:09","slug":"baby-sea-turtle-applique-in-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/baby-sea-turtle-applique-in-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"baby sea turtle applique in thread!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first thought after seeing my Baby Sea Turtle Appliqué<\/a> was to wonder how it would look in crochet thread, so I decided to find out! <\/p>\n

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I tried a few thread\/hook combinations but my favourite ended up being size 10 thread and a size 7 US \/ 1.5mm steel hook. This size is not ridiculously<\/em> small, so it’s not too difficult to crochet, but it’s still fine enough to give a satisfyingly petite and lovely baby turtle for an embellishment! <\/p>\n

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My thread sea turtle applique is only 2.25″ (5.5cm) long and it looks so good in crochet cotton! The pattern works really well scaled down like this, provided you have a fine enough needle (with a large enough eye) to weave in the thread ends. (The clever simple assembly technique from the pattern works perfectly too, in case you were wondering!)<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a perfect miniature!<\/em><\/p>\n

Seeing how cute this tiny baby turtle turned out, I’m tempted to buy a denim jacket and have turtles ‘swimming’ up one side… A crochet thread appliqué would pair perfectly with denim, and it could go through the wash with no problems. What do you think? Should I do it?! <\/p>\n

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PlanetJune Appliqués<\/h2>\n
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I’ve been developing my own style of appliqué, neither worked in rows (I don’t like that horizontal stripy look) or rounds (I dislike the look of that too, e.g. a leaf that has a big circle in the middle with the points of the leaf formed around it). <\/p>\n

In my style, the design builds out from a base crocheted ‘skeleton’, which gives the finished pieces a more uniform look, without the visual distraction of rows or circles breaking up the shape. <\/p>\n

I realised that I’ve accidentally built quite a library of appliqués already – especially if you include the flowers of some of my potted plants that could double as appliqués, like my pansy pins. <\/p>\n

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In case you’re specifically looking for crochet appliqué patterns, I’ve added an Appliqués category<\/a> to the PlanetJune shop, so you can browse more easily. <\/p>\n

And you can expect more flat designs like these in future! (Do let me know if you have any requests…) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first thought after seeing my Baby Sea Turtle Appliqué was to wonder how it would look in crochet thread, so I decided to find out! I tried a few thread\/hook combinations but my favourite ended up being size 10 thread and a size 7 US \/ 1.5mm steel hook. This size is not ridiculously […]<\/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-20825","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\/20825","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=20825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}