{"id":21333,"date":"2021-06-29T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=21333"},"modified":"2021-11-29T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:41:33","slug":"badger-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/badger-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Badger crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s taken a while but I have a new pattern for you! It&#8217;s a <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=11_17&amp;products_id=379\">Badger crochet pattern<\/a> and I&#8217;m so happy to have finally brought this idea in my head to life! Badgers have such a distinctive shape with their stocky grey bodies, black and white striped faces, tiny ears, and cute upturned noses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/badger1.jpg\" alt=\"Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/planetjune_badger_crochet.jpg\" data-pin-description=\"European Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking back through my notes, I first started planning this design in March 2014&#8230; that&#8217;s <strong>over 7 years ago!<\/strong> So if I haven&#8217;t made your favourite animal yet, don&#8217;t think that means it&#8217;ll never get made &#8211; sometimes it just takes a while for the inspiration and available time to coincide&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Badger Fun Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Badgers are members of the weasel family, <em>Mustelidae<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The variety of badger I&#8217;ve made for my pattern is the European badger, arguably the best-known and most beloved badger. You&#8217;ll find lots of European badgers as characters in classic children&#8217;s books like <em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em>, <em>Fantastic Mr Fox<\/em> and <em>The Wind in the Willows<\/em> &#8211; and of course, as the Hufflepuff emblem in the Harry Potter books!<\/li>\n<li>Other types of badger around the world include the American badger, the honey badger from Africa, and various Asian badgers. They all look somewhat similar, but aren&#8217;t very closely related.<\/li>\n<li>Badgers are masters of digging. They dig for food and live in family groups underground in burrows called setts.<\/li>\n<li>They are largely nocturnal and eat a variety of food including worms, fruit and eggs. European Badgers can eat hundreds of earthworms per night!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About the Pattern<\/h2>\n<p>As always, the pattern includes full instructions and detailed step-by-step photographs for assembly and all special techniques used, so you can follow along and make a perfect badger.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/badger3.jpg\" alt=\"Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t have a badger without those unmistakable black and white face stripes, but there are only <strong>12 rounds<\/strong> of follow-carefully colour changes, and the pattern includes lots of tips \u2013 specific to this pattern \u2013 to make the colour changing easier and ensure you\u2019ll get a beautifully tidy result.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/badger2.jpg\" alt=\"Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve finished the colourwork on the head and chest, it&#8217;s all plain sailing and you&#8217;ll be able to enjoy watching the rounded body of your badger take shape as you crochet! The head and body is all worked as one piece and there are only 3 pieces (plus the tiny ears) to sew onto the body, so the final finishing stage is quick and simple.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/badger4.jpg\" alt=\"Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Colourwork Magic!<\/h2>\n<p>You&#8217;ll often see photos of amigurumi designs with colourwork that only show you one side of the completed item, because the colourwork on the other side looks much worse. There&#8217;s a good reason for that &#8211; amigurumi stitches don&#8217;t stack exactly on top of each other, so there&#8217;s a built-in slant, which makes symmetrical colourwork essentially impossible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working for years on techniques to make paired vertical or slanting stripes at various angles for my amigurumi (and I still haven&#8217;t mastered every effect I&#8217;m looking for &#8211; there&#8217;s lots more research for me to do for future designs!) but I never release a design without getting everything to match as closely as I can.<\/p>\n<p>So here, for your viewing pleasure, are close-ups of <strong>both<\/strong> sides of my badger&#8217;s head and chest, so you can see how the colourwork looks good, with smooth black face stripes with matching angles and no awkward jagged transitions, from either side \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/badger5.jpg\" alt=\"Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/badger6.jpg\" alt=\"Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just follow the pattern and you&#8217;ll be able to achieve the same effect!<\/p>\n<h2>Buy Now &amp; Launch Discount<\/h2>\n<p>Ready to get started? <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=11_17&amp;products_id=379\">Pick up my Badger crochet pattern from <\/a>my shop right now. Or, if you&#8217;re not ready to make it just yet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/badger-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">add it to your Ravelry queue or favourites<\/a> so you don&#8217;t forget about it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/badges\/redirect?p=badger-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ravelry.com\/badges\/projects?p=badger-7&amp;t=.svg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And for <strong>one week only<\/strong>, you can take an extra 50c off the price: add the Badger pattern to your shopping cart, and enter the discount code <strong>TRUFFLEHUNTER<\/strong> at checkout! (Offer ends Tuesday 6 July, 2021.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Badgers play an essential part in popular culture, and their real-life counterparts are just adorable. I&#8217;ve never had the pleasure of seeing one in real life, but I always enjoy watching them on wildlife documentaries, and now I can see a (crocheted) badger whenever I want!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/badger1.jpg\" alt=\"Badger crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really hope you&#8217;ll enjoy my Badger pattern. Don&#8217;t forget to share photos with me when you&#8217;ve made one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post in the <a href=\"\/ravelry\">PlanetJune Ravelry group<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tag me (@PlanetJune) on any social media<\/li>\n<li>Email me a pic to <a href=\"mailto:june@planetjune.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">june@planetjune.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;I always love to hear from you, and to see what you&#8217;ve been making from my patterns. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s taken a while but I have a new pattern for you! It&#8217;s a Badger crochet pattern and I&#8217;m so happy to have finally brought this idea in my head to life! Badgers have such a distinctive shape with their stocky grey bodies, black and white striped faces, tiny ears, and cute upturned [&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":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21333","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\/21333","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=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}